Direction: Peter Hutton

Direction Peter Hutton

Plot A haunting meditation on human progress, both physical and metaphorical, At Sea charts a three-year passage from twenty-first-century ship building in South Korea to primitive and dangerous ship breaking in...

Direction Peter Hutton

Plot "July ’71 in San Francisco, Living at Beach Street, Working at Canyon Cinema, Swimming in the Valley of the Moon" is a diary of free-spirited communal living and moment-by-moment observations...

Direction Peter Hutton

Direction Peter Hutton

Plot Hutton begins his film with a reprint of the 1903 silent movie Down the Hudson, which presents as an attraction an accelerated trip through a natural environment already noticeably sculpted...

Direction Peter Hutton

Plot The first part (winter) of a seasonal study of the Hudson river in New York.

Direction Peter Hutton

Plot “Images of Asian Music represents footage compiled during 1973-74 when Peter Hutton was living in Thailand and working at sea as a merchant seaman. While the film is silent, the...

Direction Peter Hutton

Plot A film documenting the landscapes of northen Iceland, as well as a recent work about the Hudson River. Drawing on the traditions of 19th-century landscape painting and still photography, Hutton's...

Direction Peter Hutton

Direction Peter Hutton

Direction Peter Hutton

Direction Peter Hutton

Plot Portrait of Lodz (Poland), made of still shots, where Hutton films the rain, the empty streets at dawn, the fields and people working, among other things.

Direction Peter Hutton

Plot "Boston Fire" depicts the abstracted burning of a unidentified building and a group of fire-fighter’s futile attempts to drown out the blaze.

Direction Peter Hutton

Direction Peter Hutton

Plot 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...

Direction Peter Hutton

Direction Peter Hutton

Plot LOOKING AT THE SEA begins, a propos of nothing, on a verdant hillside. Slowly, shot by shot, the film moves us from the earth to the sea, with a blue-gray...

Direction Peter Hutton

Direction Peter Hutton

Plot 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.

Direction Peter Hutton

Plot 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. Hutton observes the...

Direction Peter Hutton

Plot “Using exciting juxtapositions of shade and movement, this silent and surreally poetic film examines subtle changes of light and landscape in New York. NEW YORK NEAR SLEEP exploits the basic...