Director

Peter Hutton

Directing

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Directed movies: 21Directed series: 1All crew credits: 29

TMDB ID: 1093719

IMDb ID: nm0404660

Known for: Directing

Born: August 24, 1944

Died: June 25, 2016

Age: 71

Place of birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1970 - 2018

Years active: 49

Average TMDB rating: 6.77

Wikidata: Q7174804

Also known as

Peter Barrington Hutton • Peter B. Hutton

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Director (20)Additional Director of Photography (1)Director of Photography (1)Cinematography (2)Thanks (2)Additional Camera (1)Camera Operator (1)Production Assistant (1)

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Biography

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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