Peter Hutton Movies

In near-future New York, ten years after the “social-democratic war of liberation,” diverse groups of women organize a feminist uprising...

An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's...

For more than 100 years, the Statue of Liberty has been a symbol of hope and refuge for generations of immigrants. In this lyrical, compelling and...

This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007...

A cinematic love letter to a pre-gentrification New York City

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

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

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....

Three segments depicting the life cycle of a freighter boat.

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

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...

Hutton's most impressive work ... the filmmaker's style takes on an assertive edge that marks his maturity. The landscape has a majesty that serves...

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...

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

This movie is about a filmmaker looking at the sea.

A film documenting the landscapes of northern Iceland.

Peter Hutton’s meditation on the Hudson River.

"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...

A languid, beautifully shot collection of landscapes, edited into a whimsical and touching film.

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