Peter Hutton

::"For the Northern Irish footballer of the same name, see Peter Hutton (footballer).

Peter Hutton (born 1944 in Detroit, Michigan) is an experimental filmmaker, known primarily for his silent cinematic portraits of cities and landscapes around the world. He has 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 has taught filmmaking at Hampshire College, Harvard University, SUNY Purchase, and Bard College, where he has served as the director of the Film and Electronic Arts Program since 1989. 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.

elected filmography

*"In Marin County" (1970)
*"July '71 in San Francisco, Living at Beach Street, Working at Canyon Cinema, Swimming in the Valley of the Moon" (1971)
*"New York Near Sleep for Saski" (1972)
*"Images of Asian Music (A Diary from Life 1973-1974)" (1973-1974)
*"Florence" (1975)
*"Boston Fire" (1979)
*"New York Portrait: Chapter One" (1978-1979)
*"New York Portrait: Chapter Two" (1980-1981)
*"Budapest Portrait (Memories of a City)" (1984-1986)
*"New York Portrait: Chapter Three" (1990)
*"In Titan's Goblet" (1991)
*"Lodz Symphony" (1991-1993)
*"Study of a River" (1996-1997)
*"Time and Tide" (2000)
*"Looking at the Sea" (2001)
*"Two Rivers" (2001-2002)
*"Skagafjordur" (2002-2004)
*"At Sea" (2007)

External links

* [http://www.canyoncinema.com/H/Hutton.html Peter Hutton at Canyon Cinema Cooperative]