"Over the past fifteen years Peter Hutton has created abody of films distinguished for their vision, modesty, and craft.Hutton...engages the diaristic tradition of Jonas Mekas, Andrew Noren,Warren Sonbert and others, as well as the older avant-garde mode of thefilm city-symphony and even the commercial travelogue...His titlesindicate the range of his travels-July 1971 in San Francisco...Images ofAsian Music...New York Portrait...Lenin Portrait... He has been comparedto Louis Lumière and 'the band of peripatetic cameramen...whotook the cinematographe around the world at the end of the nineteenthcentury.' Yet the single-mindedness and consistency of Hutton'ssensibility confounds normal categories of the familiar and the exotic,the ordinary and touristic. If his subject is less himself than hissurroundings, he still manages to find his personality mirrored in everyenvironment. Hutton is a flaneur, a walker in the city (who) evokes thesolitary epiphanies of the metropolitan explorer." J. Hoberman, ArtForum International While living in Berlin in1981, Hutton made several visits to socialist countries; one result wasLenin Portrait.