Hutton's black and white haikus are an exquisite distillationof the cinematic eye. The limitations imposed - no color, no sound, no movement(except from a vehicle not directly propelled by the filmmaker), no direct cutssince the images are born and die in black - ironically entail an ultimate freedomof the imagination. ... If pleasure can disturb, Hutton's ploys emerge in fullfocus. These materializing then evaporating images don't ignite, but conjure strainsof fleeting panoramas of detached bemusement. More than mere photography, Hutton'scontained-with-in-the-frame juxtapositions are filmic explorations of the benign andthe tragic ....