Peter Hutton Movies

Three segments depicting the life cycle of a freighter boat.

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

Peter Hutton’s meditation on the Hudson River.

BOSTON FIRE finds grandeur in smoke rising eloquently from a city blaze. Billowing puffs of darkness blend with fountains of water streaming in from...

1970. 16mm; 5 minutes; black and white; sound.

"I developed a need to try to retain everything I was passing through, by means of my Bolex camera."

Third part of At Sea, In Berlin, Lenin Portrait (1982) that was screened separately. 1982. 16mm; 15 minutes; black and white; silent.

A contemplative, seemingly timeless record of the years Hutton spent in Southeast Asia while working as a merchant seaman. Jon Jost writes, "The film...

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...

Commissioned by the arts organization Minetta Brook, Two Rivers was inspired by Henry Hudson’s failed 1609 quest to discover a trade route...

"IN MARIN COUNTY approaches the subject of America's ecological disaster as a comic yet bizarre vision. The tradition of Old MacDonald's farm has...

July ’71 is as much a record of the daily experiences of light and shadow as it is a catalogue of domestic life. More involved with...

Shot on 16mm, this wondrous silent film study from avant-garde master Peter Hutton (At Sea) observes human movement across three distinct landscapes:...

"[Hutton’s] latest urban film, New York Portrait, Chapter III, takes on a unique tone in relation to Hutton’s ongoing exploration of...

“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...

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...

A portrait of Łódź, Poland that exists in a time-warp of sad memory.

“Using exciting juxtapositions of shade and movement, this silent and surreally poetic film examines subtle changes of light and landscape in...