Peter Hutton: Old and New December 11, 2010

Peter Hutton in attendance for discussion along with film scholar Scott MacDonald.

Peter Hutton is one of cinema’s most ardent and poetic portraitists of city and landscape. A former merchant seaman, he has spent nearly forty years voyaging around the world, often by cargo ship, to create sublimely meditative, luminously photographed, and intimately diaristic studies of place, from the Yangtze River to the Polish industrial city of Lodz, and from northern Iceland to a ship graveyard on the Bangladeshi shore. This screening includes works both old and in progress.

Peter Hutton received his B.F.A. and M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute. He has taught at Hampshire College, Harvard University, SUNY Purchase. He has produced more than 20 films, most of which are portraits of cities and landscapes around the world. In 2008, the Museum of Modern Art curated a retrospective of his work, which has shown in major museums and at festivals in the United States and Europe, including Whitney Biennial (1985, 1991, 1995, 2004). He is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, DAAD Berliner, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Dutch Film Critics Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has taught at Bard College since 1984.

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