[Frameworks] Peter Hutton

Sun Jun 26 16:08:01 UTC 2016

I carry this indelible image of Peter: we were walking down a street on a blustery day here in Santa Fe, deep in passionate discussion, when we came upon a huge Cottonwood tree swaying majestically in the wind, as if in slow motion. It was an arresting sight. We paused for a while then walked on, me continuing the thought that had been interrupted, when I realized Peter wasn’t beside me. I turned around to see him a block behind, still standing where we had stopped. “Of  course,” I thought to myself, “that isn’t just anyone staring at the tree, that’s Peter Hutton, seeing it through the frame of all those shimmering films he has given us.” I walked back to join him and we stood in silence, transfixed by the Cottonwood’s great mass undulating like the surface of a rolling sea. 

A year or so later, in 2007, Peter happened to be in Albuquerque for Bryan Konefsky’s Experiments in Cinema festival at the same time as my retirement party at the College of Santa Fe, so he was able to be there. I felt honored by his presence. I had shown his films for 36 of the 38 years I taught the history of experimental film, tracking the evolution of an artistic vision that epitomized our noble tradition. For me it was perfect closure. A photo is here: https://www.facebook.com/gene.youngblood.7 <https://www.facebook.com/gene.youngblood.7> 

> On Jun 26, 2016, at 6:06 AM, Raquel Schefer <raquelschefer at gmail.com> wrote:
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> This is a very sad news. Peter Hutton will always continue to live through his films.
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> 2016-06-26 13:26 GMT+02:00 Benjamin Léon <benj.leon at gmail.com <mailto:benj.leon at gmail.com>>:
> It's a very sad news. I'm shocked. 
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> 2016-06-26 4:02 GMT+02:00 owen at thenowcorporation.com <mailto:owen at thenowcorporation.com> <owen at thenowcorporation.com <mailto:owen at thenowcorporation.com>>:
> I'm sorry to hear this. my condolences.
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> On Jun 25, 2016, at 9:16 PM, Scott MacDonald <smacdona at hamilton.edu <mailto:smacdona at hamilton.edu>> wrote:
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>> It's hard to process, Dominic. I saw him in early February and he looked and seemed his usual self. Talked to him last Sunday and he was hopeful he could recover.
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>> So sad.
>> Scott
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>> On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 7:29 PM, Dominic Angerame <dominic.angerame at gmail.com <mailto:dominic.angerame at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> OMG this is terrible. I knew Peter for many years through Canyon Cinema and am shocked to hear of his passing. We hung out in Paris when we both were showing films at the Fondation Cartier in a show by Paul Virilio. 
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>> He told me stories of his life in the early days of Canyon Cinema and he built the shelving units that still remain in the archives with his name on it.
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>> I just do not know what to say.
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>> With great sadness
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>> Dominic
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>> On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Scott MacDonald <smacdona at hamilton.edu <mailto:smacdona at hamilton.edu>> wrote:
>> Dear Frameworkers,
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>> I write in deep sorrow, with terrible news: Peter Hutton died today.
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>> As many of you know first-hand, Peter was one of the loveliest people who ever walked the earth--and one of the great filmmakers. 
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>> He is survived by his daughter Manon and his wife Carolina Gonzalez Hutton--and by a body of astonishingly beautiful films. And by the hundreds of students who studied with him over the years.
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>> Peter died of a virulent lung cancer.
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>> In his last days he heard from many old and new friends--and when I spoke to him last Sunday, he was upbeat and hopeful.
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>> What, really, can one say?
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>> If I learn news that might be of interest to Frameworks, I'll be back in touch
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>> Scott
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