Peter Hutton
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday24 August 1944
Died25 June 2016 (age 71)
Place of birthDetroit, Michigan, USA
Known credits40
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 F…
14 STANDARD 8mm REELS 1981–1988
2018 · Self
The Making of a Superhero Musical
2015 · Thanks
All About Bolex
2015
Three Landscapes
2013 · Director
The Poor Stockinger, The Luddite Cropper and The Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott
2012 · Cinematography
Sweetgrass
2009 · Thanks
The Gates
2008 · Additional Camera
365 Day Project
2007 · Self
At Sea
2007 · Director
At Sea
2007 · Cinematography
Skagafjördur
2004 · Director
Certain Women
2004 · Clementine's Dad
Two Rivers
2003 · Director
Looking at the Sea
2001 · Director
Time and Tide
2000 · Director
Time and Tide
2000 · Editor
Time and Tide
2000 · Director of Photography
Eerie
1997 · Director of Photography
Study of a River
1997 · Director
Baseball
1994 · Additional Director of Photography
Lodz Symphony
1993 · Director
In Titan's Goblet
1991 · Director
Sketches for Late City Final
1991 · Director
In Titan's Goblet
1991 · Cinematography
No Picnic
1990 · Director of Photography
New York Portrait
1990 · Director
New York Portrait, Chapter III
1990 · Director
Landscape (for Manon)
1987 · Director
The Statue of Liberty
1985 · Additional Director of Photography
Budapest Portrait (Memories of a City)
1984 · Director
Born in Flames
1983 · Camera Operator
At Sea, In Berlin, Lenin Portrait
1982 · Director
Lenin Portrait
1982 · Director
New York Portrait, Chapter II
1981 · Director
Boston Fire
1979 · Director
New York Portrait, Chapter I
1979 · Director
The Deadly Art of Survival
1979 · Production Assistant
Florence
1975 · Director
Florence
1975 · Cinematography
Images of Asian Music (A Diary from Life 1973-74)
1974 · Director
New York Near Sleep for Saskia
1972 · Director
July '71 in San Francisco, Living at Beach Street, Working at Canyon Cinema, Swimming in the Valley of the Moon
1971 · Director
Riverbody
1970
In Marin County
1970 · Director
For Horatio Alger
1970 · Director
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