New York seen through the unique compositional frame of Hutton’s 16mm camera. The pulse of street life finds no role in New York Portrait. The dense metropolitan population and imposing urban locale disappear before Hutton’s concern for the primal force of a universal presence. With an eye for the extraordinary in the ordinary (and as a filmmaker in possession of a rare patience who can wait for such moments to appear) Hutton points his camera toward the clouds to find flocks of birds, or turns it back to his apartment to capture frequently astonishing moments of transition and poetic stasis in everyday life.