Step into the contemplative world of acclaimed experimental filmmaker Peter Hutton with a rare screening of three of his most poetic works: Landscape (for Manon), Study of a River, and Time and Tide.
Traveller, sea merchant and avid sailor, Peter Hutton made silent films grounded in the fleeting movement of rivers, clouds, mist, smoke and sunlight, inspired by the river painters from the Hudson river school (1829–1908).
Hutton crystalizes the movement of atmospheric conditions with fading in-and-out still shots, somewhat like the opening and closing of a jewellery box.
The evening aims to explore the movement in weather conditions which Hutton frames in the river portraits, against a brief and unrecognized history of ornament that constantly finds itself in dialogue with weather and atmospheric conditions.
The programme presents three silent film portraits and record of the Hudson river (1987 – 2000), alongside Hata (2025) by Daniel Owusu, a project and film cycle which consists of surveys and studies within meteorological work.