Peter Hutton Trailers
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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.
Most Popular Peter Hutton Trailers
Total trailers found: 38
10 March 2004
Caldwell's pulp storytelling, proto-feminist stance and unabashed social dramatization of his characters are a distinct vision of the condition of women -- specifically working class women.
01 April 1983
In near-future New York, ten years after the “social-democratic war of liberation,” diverse groups of women organize a feminist uprising as equality remains unfulfilled.
15 August 2015
A mockumentary following the troubled production of Clockmen: The Musical, focusing on a cosplayer-turned-actress who reacts to the stress of the production in a rather unusual way.
01 January 1991
Sketches for Late City Final (Jem Cohen, Peter Hutton, Jeff Preiss, Adam Grossman Cohen, co-produced by Fred Riedel, c.
01 October 2004
A film documenting the landscapes of northern Iceland.
21 March 1971
July ’71 is as much a record of the daily experiences of light and shadow as it is a catalogue of domestic life.
01 January 2015
"I developed a need to try to retain everything I was passing through, by means of my Bolex camera."
18 November 2009
An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture, revealing a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.
11 March 1970
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.
01 January 1975
Florence is a contemplative study of light and shadows, textures and planes, that makes beautiful use of the tonal qualities of black and white film.
01 January 1993
A portrait of Łódź, Poland that exists in a time-warp of sad memory.
26 February 2008
A documentary on New York City’s biggest public art project ever, an installation called “The Gates” by Christo and Jeanne Claude.
01 January 2018
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.
27 April 1997
The first part (winter) of a seasonal study of the Hudson river in New York.
01 January 1979
Real-life kung fu master Nathan Ingram stars in this gritty, low-budget martial arts epic as a local karate school owner who clashes with a gang of drug traffickers posing as the owners of a rival dojo.
01 January 1974
A contemplative, seemingly timeless record of the years Hutton spent in Southeast Asia while working as a merchant seaman.
01 January 1979
Hutton's most impressive work ... the filmmaker's style takes on an assertive edge that marks his maturity.
01 January 1981
Chapter Two represents a continuation of daily observations from the environment of Manhattan compiled over a period from 1980-1981.
21 March 1990
"[Hutton’s] latest urban film, New York Portrait, Chapter III, takes on a unique tone in relation to Hutton’s ongoing exploration of rural landscape.
12 July 1990
Down-and-out jukebox operator Macabee Cohn wanders the cheap tenements, dive bars, and derelict streets of the East Village in search of a mysterious woman in a striped dress.
01 January 1991
In Titan's Goblet refers to a landscape painting by Thomas Cole circa 1833. The film is intended as a homage to Cole, who is regarded as the father of the Hudson River School of painting.
26 October 1985
For more than 100 years, the Statue of Liberty has been a symbol of hope and refuge for generations of immigrants.
30 April 1979
BOSTON FIRE finds grandeur in smoke rising eloquently from a city blaze. Billowing puffs of darkness blend with fountains of water streaming in from offscreen to orchestrate a play of primal elements.
10 October 2012
Turner Prize-winner Luke Fowler's film focuses on the life and work of the socialist historian EP Thompson and his involvement with the Workers Education Association.
31 December 2007
This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form.
07 October 2000
Peter Hutton’s meditation on the Hudson River.
09 September 2013
Shot on 16mm, this wondrous silent film study from avant-garde master Peter Hutton (At Sea) observes human movement across three distinct landscapes: Detroit, along the Hudson River Valley and in the Dallol Depression in Ethiopia.
01 June 1997
A woman searches for her husband, a film director who's gone missing while scouting locations.
01 January 1984
Peter Hutton’s essay on the naturalization of the urban landscape. Voluptuously gray, worn and lived in, the city is like a stage set for an invisible drama.
01 January 1982
Third part of At Sea, In Berlin, Lenin Portrait (1982) that was screened separately.
1982. 16mm; 15 minutes; black and white; silent.
01 January 1972
“Using exciting juxtapositions of shade and movement, this silent and surreally poetic film examines subtle changes of light and landscape in New York.
07 September 2007
Three segments depicting the life cycle of a freighter boat.
01 January 2001
“When I was shooting the material that ended up in "Looking at the Sea", I was standing on these cliffs on the west coast of Ireland, looking west into the sun and thinking about the immigrants who wanted to leave Ireland because of the famines and were confronted with that same perspective.
01 January 1982
Although this grouping of three works shot during Peter Hutton’s yearlong stay in West Berlin seems to have been screened at least a few times, it was never placed in distribution and it seems that Hutton shelved it after these few screenings.
01 January 1970
1970. 16mm; 5 minutes; black and white; sound.
01 January 2003
Commissioned by the arts organization Minetta Brook, Two Rivers was inspired by Henry Hudson’s failed 1609 quest to discover a trade route between North America and China.
01 January 1970
"IN MARIN COUNTY approaches the subject of America's ecological disaster as a comic yet bizarre vision.
01 January 1987
A languid, beautifully shot collection of landscapes, edited into a whimsical and touching film.
