David Gatten
David Edward Gatten (Born February 11, 1971, Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American experimental filmmaker and moving image artist. Since 1996 Gatten's films have explored the intersection of the printed word and moving image, cataloguing the variety of ways in which texts function in cinema as both language and image, often blurring the boundary between these categories. His 16mm films often employ cameraless techniques, combined with close-up cinematography and optical printing processes. In addition to the ongoing 16mm films, Gatten is now making hybrid 16mm/digital works and has completed an entirely digital feature-length project called The Extravagant Shadows.
Among other projects, they are currently working on a series of films entitled Secret History of the Dividing Line, a True Account in Nine Parts, a project which Artforum magazine called "one of the most erudite and ambitious undertakings in recent cinema." He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005 to continue work on this series of films exploring the library of William Byrd II of Westover (1674–1744) and the lives of William Byrd and their daughter Evelyn Byrd (1707–1737). [Wikipedia]
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Movies (37)
The Dusting of the Books
2028 · Director
The World is Bound with Secret Knots
2028 · Director
The Spirit Lamp
2025 · Director
This Day’s Madness did prepare Tomorrow’s Silence
2021 · Director
The Heart is the Residence of the Spirit
2019 · Director
Narrow Rivers, Open Seas & Seventeen Sunsets (Silences for A Merchant Mariner)
2018 · Director
Odysseus and the Oceanic Feeling
2017 · Narrator
Intermission
2016 · Narrator
The Illinois Parables
2016 · Himself
China monumentis (A Roll for Peter)
2016 · Director
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions
2016 · Director
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
2015 · Director
What Places of Heaven, What Planets Directed, How Long the Effects? or, The General Accidents of the World
2013 · Director
By Pain and Rhyme and Arabesques of Foraging
2013 · Director
The Extravagant Shadows
2012 · Director
The Matter Propounded, of Its Possibility and Impossibility, Treated in Four Parts
2011 · Director
So Sure of Nowhere Buying Times to Come
2010 · Director
Film for Invisible Ink, case no. 323. Once Upon a Time in the West
2010 · Director
Ordinary Time, Equivocal Inventory
2009 · Director
Journals and Remarks
2009 · Director
Today! (excerpts)
2008 · Director
Today! (excerpts #28 and #19)
2008 · Director
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Film for Invisible Ink, Case No. 142: ABBREVIATION FOR DEAD WINTER [Diminished by 1,794]
2008 · Director
Rete: Red Hook, Brooklyn
2008 · Director
How to Conduct a Love Affair
2007 · Director
Today!
2007 · Director
What The Water Said, Nos. 4-6
2007 · Director
Shrimp Boat Log
2006 · Director
Film for Invisible Ink case no. 71: BASE-PLUS-FOG
2006 · Director
The Great Art of Knowing
2004 · Director
Fragrant Portals, Bright Particulars and the Edge of Space
2003 · Director
Secret History of the Dividing Line
2002 · Director
The Enjoyment of Reading, Lost and Found
2001 · Director
Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises or the Doctrine of Handy-Works Applied to the Art of Printing
1999 · Director
What The Water Said, Nos. 1-3
1998 · Director
Hardwood Process
1996 · Director
Silver Align
1995 · Director
TV shows (0)
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