Education
Hutton studied painting, sculpture and film at the San Francisco Art Institute.
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He has also worked as a professional cinematographer, most notably for his former student Ken Burns. In 1987, Hutton was awarded Best Cinematography for his work on Philosophy Hartman"s feature film "Number Picnic" at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2011, the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress selected "Study of a River" as one of 25 films annually chosen for permanent preservation.
He has taught filmmaking at CalArts, Hampshire College, Harvard University, State University of New York Purchase, and Bard College, where he has served as the director of the Film and Electronic Arts Program since 1989.
Much of Hutton"s career was influenced by his time in the merchant marine. Hutton"s films are distributed by Canyon Cinema in San Francisco and Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin.
In May 2008 the Museum of Modern Art in New York held a full retrospective of Hutton"s films. His most recent work, Three Landscapes premièred at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2013.
2010: Les Rencontres d"Arles, France.
