Directing
David Gatten
1971-02-11 · Ann Arbor, Michigan
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]
Known for
The Illinois Parables
Hardwood Process
What Places of Heaven, What Planets Directed, How Long the Effects? or, The General Accidents of the World
The Extravagant Shadows
So Sure of Nowhere Buying Times to Come
How to Conduct a Love Affair
What The Water Said, Nos. 4-6
Secret History of the Dividing Line
Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises or the Doctrine of Handy-Works Applied to the Art of Printing
What The Water Said, Nos. 1-3
The Dusting of the Books
The World is Bound with Secret Knots
The Spirit Lamp
This Day’s Madness did prepare Tomorrow’s Silence
The Heart is the Residence of the Spirit
Narrow Rivers, Open Seas & Seventeen Sunsets (Silences for A Merchant Mariner)
Movie credits · 37
The Dusting of the Books
The World is Bound with Secret Knots
The Spirit Lamp
This Day’s Madness did prepare Tomorrow’s Silence
The Heart is the Residence of the Spirit
Narrow Rivers, Open Seas & Seventeen Sunsets (Silences for A Merchant Mariner)
Odysseus and the Oceanic Feeling
Intermission
The Illinois Parables
China monumentis (A Roll for Peter)
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
What Places of Heaven, What Planets Directed, How Long the Effects? or, The General Accidents of the World
By Pain and Rhyme and Arabesques of Foraging
The Extravagant Shadows
The Matter Propounded, of Its Possibility and Impossibility, Treated in Four Parts
So Sure of Nowhere Buying Times to Come
Film for Invisible Ink, case no. 323. Once Upon a Time in the West
Ordinary Time, Equivocal Inventory
Journals and Remarks
Today! (excerpts)
Today! (excerpts #28 and #19)
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Film for Invisible Ink, Case No. 142: ABBREVIATION FOR DEAD WINTER [Diminished by 1,794]
Rete: Red Hook, Brooklyn
How to Conduct a Love Affair
Today!
What The Water Said, Nos. 4-6
Shrimp Boat Log
Film for Invisible Ink case no. 71: BASE-PLUS-FOG
The Great Art of Knowing
Fragrant Portals, Bright Particulars and the Edge of Space
Secret History of the Dividing Line
The Enjoyment of Reading, Lost and Found
Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises or the Doctrine of Handy-Works Applied to the Art of Printing
What The Water Said, Nos. 1-3
Hardwood Process
Silver Align
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