Peter B. Hutton

Born: 1944-08-24

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.


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Riverbody

as uncredited
Released: 1970-03-11

A continuous dissolve of 87 male and female nudes. "The film's fascination lies with the...

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14 STANDARD 8mm REELS 1981–1988

as Self
Released: 2018-01-01

Preiss had the rare chance to salvage a selection of 8mm reeled from his archive; 30 years after...

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All About Bolex

as uncredited
Released: 2015-01-01

"I developed a need to try to retain everything I was passing through, by means of my Bolex camera."

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