Peter Hutton is an experimental film

Experimental film

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maker, known primarily for his silent cinematic portraits of cities and landscapes around the world. He has also worked as a professional cinematographer

Cinematographer

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, most notably for his former student Ken Burns

Ken Burns

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. Hutton studied painting, sculpture and film at the San Francisco Art Institute

San Francisco Art Institute

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. He has taught filmmaking at CalArts, Hampshire College

Hampshire College

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, Harvard University

Harvard University

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, SUNY Purchase, and Bard College

Bard College

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, where he has served as the director of the Film and Electronic Arts Program since 1989.
Hutton's films are distributed by Canyon Cinema

Canyon Cinema

Canyon Cinema is a San Francisco based filmmakers' cooperative specializing in the distribution of avant-garde and experimental film. The organization was instigated in about 1960 by Bruce Baillie as an exhibition outlet for independent film, and was formally established as a non-profit...

 in San Francisco. In May 2008 the Museum of Modern Art in New York held a full retrospective of Hutton's films.

Selected 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 Saskia (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
  Study of a River
  Study of a River is a 1996 experimental film directed by Peter Hutton.The experimental film focuses on the first part of a winter seasonal study of the Hudson River....
  
  (1996-1997)
• Time and Tide (2000)
• Looking at the Sea (2001)
• Two Rivers (2001-2002)
• Skagafjordur (2002-2004)
• At Sea (2007)

Exhibitions

• 2010: Les Rencontres d'Arles, France.

External links

• Peter Hutton at Canyon Cinema Cooperative