DIM Cinema: Peter Hutton, Near & Far (Program 2) [1]
“Hit with a heavy case of wanderlust” as a young man, Hutton spent 15 years as a merchant marine, and from then on was rarely without his 16mm camera. His gorgeously textured depictions of cities and landscapes are, in his words, “diaristic without being autobiographical,” using long takes and silence to encourage the mind to roam. Whether near to home or far away, “Hutton handled his camera like a curious outsider, lingering on the flow of water or the movement of clouds, taking in people in brief, penetrating but oddly distant portraits, not staying in any one place too long” (Max Nelson, Film Comment).
Programme:- Florence (1975. 7 min.)- Images of Asian Music (A Diary from Life 1973-74) (1974. 29 min.)- Lødz Symphony (1993. 20 min.)- Skagafjordur (2004. 33 min.)
Peter Hutton: Near and Far DIM Cinema pays tribute to Peter Hutton, the influential American filmmaker and educator who died last June. Cahiers du cinéma described his body of work as radical and singular: “A sort of primitive documentary, silent, which celebrates the beauty of the world without forgetting to observe people, the conditions they live and work under.”
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DIM Cinema [4]
An ongoing series curated by Michèle Smith, DIM Cinema [6]presents Canadian and international moving images in dialogue with the cinema. Screenings are held monthly at The Cinematheque [7] on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations.The name of the series is inspired by the diffused Vancouver sky, the darkness of the cinema, and a quote from James Broughton's Making Light of It (1992): “Movie images are dim reflections of the beauty and ferocity in mankind.”