Peter B. Hutton

Peter B. Hutton

Born: August 24, 1944
Died: June 25, 2016
in Detroit, Michigan, USA
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.

Movies for Peter B. Hutton...

14 STANDARD 8mm REELS 1981–1988
Title: 14 STANDARD 8mm REELS 1981–1988
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2018
Type: Movie
Preiss had the rare chance to salvage a selection of 8mm reeled from his archive; 30 years after it was first shot, this lovingly refashioned material returns as…a luminescent ode to the friends, filmmakers and artists with whom Preiss lived and worked during this time.
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All About Bolex
Title: All About Bolex
Released: January 1, 2015
Type: Movie
"I developed a need to try to retain everything I was passing through, by means of my Bolex camera."
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Riverbody
Title: Riverbody
Released: March 11, 1970
Type: Movie
A continuous dissolve of 87 male and female nudes. "The film's fascination lies with the suspense of that magic moment, halfway between two persons, when the dissolve technique produces composite figures, oftentimes hermaphroditic, that inspires awe for the mystery of the human form." - B. Ruby Rich, Chicago Art Institute