Catalogue des films de « Peter Hutton »

“Three Landscapesis" composed of three parts, but the sections in this triptych play off one another in ways more comparative than narrative. Each section examines groups of labourers in vastly different locales: salt miners in the deserts of...

"A riveting and revelatory chronicle of the birth, life, and death of a colossal container ship. [...] A haunting meditation on human progress, both physical and metaphorical." [...] (Joshua Siegel)

"A portrait of Skagafjördur, the fjord valley and coastline of northwest Iceland, renders it a land that time forgot, with only the barest traces of human activity and with closely observed atmospheric effects that blur distinctions between sea,...

"The filmmaker was traveling on the tugboat "Gotham" as it pushed (up river) and pulled (down river) the "Noel Cutler", a barge filled with thirty-five thousand barrels of unleaded gasoline. Combining the luminescence and formal contemplation of...

The first part of a seasonal portrait of the Hudson River. This section portrays observations of winter over a period of two years.

A portrait of Lodz, Poland, that exists in a timewarp of sad memory. Peter Hutton creates an empty world evoking the nineteenth century industrial atmosphere that is populated with the ghosts of Poland’s tragic past.

In Titan’s Goblet refers to a landscape painting by Thomas Cole around 1833. The film is intended as a homage to Cole, who is regarded as the father of the Hudson River School of painting.

"[Hutton’s] latest urban film, "New York Portrait, Chapter III", takes on a unique tone in relation to Hutton’s ongoing exploration of rural landscape. The very fact that Hutton is dealing with older footage, with archives of memory more than...

First section of an extended study of the weather and landscape in the Hudson River Valley.

"Boston Fire finds grandeur in smoke rising eloquently from a city blaze. Billowing puffs of darkness blend with fountains of water streaming in from offscreen to orchestrate a play of primal elements. The beautiful texture of the smoke coupled...