Peter Hutton

Biography

Peter Hutton (born 1944 in Detroit, Michigan) was an experimental filmmaker, known primarily for his silent cinematic portraits of cities and landscapes around the world. He also worked as a professional cinematographer, most notably for his former student Ken Burns. Hutton studied painting, sculpture and film at the San Francisco Art Institute. He taught filmmaking at CalArts, Hampshire College, Harvard University, SUNY Purchase, and Bard College, where he served as the director of the Film and Electronic Arts Program from 1989 to 2016. Hutton's films are distributed by Canyon Cinema in San Francisco. In May 2008 the Museum of Modern Art in New York held a full retrospective of Hutton's films.

Directed

1. At Sea (2007) — Director
2. Study of a River (1997) — Director
3. Landscape (for Manon) (1987) — Director
4. Time and Tide (2000) — Director
5. Boston Fire (1979) — Director
6. New York Portrait, Chapter I (1979) — Director
7. New York Portrait, Chapter II (1981) — Director
8. Images of Asian Music (A Diary from Life 1973-74) (1974) — Director
9. Florence (1975) — Director
10. In Titan's Goblet (1991) — Director
11. Skagafjördur (2004) — Director
12. July '71 in San Francisco, Living at Beach Street, Working at Canyon Cinema, Swimming in the Valley of the Moon (1971) — Director
13. Three Landscapes (2013) — Director
14. Lodz Symphony (1993) — Director
15. New York Portrait, Chapter III (1990) — Director
16. New York Near Sleep for Saskia (1972) — Director
17. Budapest Portrait (Memories of a City) (1984) — Director
18. In Marin County (1970) — Director
19. Looking at the Sea (2001) — Director
20. New York Portrait (1990) — Director
21. Two Rivers (2003) — Director
22. Sketches for Late City Final (1991) — Director
23. For Horatio Alger (1970) — Director
24. At Sea, In Berlin, Lenin Portrait (1982) — Director
25. Lenin Portrait (1982) — Director

Also appeared in

1. 365 Day Project (2007) — Self
2. Certain Women (2004) — Clementine's Dad
3. Riverbody (1970)
4. All About Bolex (2015)
5. 14 STANDARD 8mm REELS 1981–1988 (2018) — Self