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Time and Tide - Peter Hutton (USA, 2006, 16mm, 35:00 min, mute)
The first section of the film is a reprint of a reel
shot by Billy Bitzer in 1903 titled Down the Hudson for
Biograph. It chronicles in single frame time lapse a section of the river
between Newburgh and Yonkers. The second section of the film was shot by
filmmaker Peter Hutton and records fragments of several trips up and down the
Hudson River between Bayonne (NJ and Albany (NY). The filmmaker was travelling
on the tugboat “Gotham” as it pushed (up river) and pulled (down river) the
Noel Cutler, a barge filled with 35,000 barrels of unleaded gasoline.
“Combining the luminescence and formal contemplation of the Hudson Valley
painters with documentary and ecological concerns, Time and Tide extends the
panoramic field of Hutton’s previous Portrait of a River. And after decades of
an exclusive devotion to and mastery of reversal black and white stocks, Time
and Tide marks Hutton’s inaugural foray into color negative.”
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