David Gatten
Directing
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]
Filmography
The World is Bound with Secret Knots
2028 · Movie
The Dusting of the Books
2028 · Movie
The Spirit Lamp
2025 · Movie
This Day’s Madness did prepare Tomorrow’s Silence
2021 · Movie
The Heart is the Residence of the Spirit
2019 · Movie
Narrow Rivers, Open Seas & Seventeen Sunsets (Silences for A Merchant Mariner)
2018 · Movie
Odysseus and the Oceanic Feeling
2017 · Movie
Intermission
2016 · Movie
The Illinois Parables
2016 · Movie
China monumentis (A Roll for Peter)
2016 · Movie
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions
2016 · Movie
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
2015 · Movie
What Places of Heaven, What Planets Directed, How Long the Effects? or, The General Accidents of the World
2013 · Movie
By Pain and Rhyme and Arabesques of Foraging
2013 · Movie
The Extravagant Shadows
2012 · Movie
The Matter Propounded, of Its Possibility and Impossibility, Treated in Four Parts
2011 · Movie
So Sure of Nowhere Buying Times to Come
2010 · Movie
Film for Invisible Ink, case no. 323. Once Upon a Time in the West
2010 · Movie
Ordinary Time, Equivocal Inventory
2009 · Movie
Journals and Remarks
2009 · Movie
Today! (excerpts)
2008 · Movie
Today! (excerpts #28 and #19)
2008 · Movie
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Film for Invisible Ink, Case No. 142: ABBREVIATION FOR DEAD WINTER [Diminished by 1,794]
2008 · Movie
Rete: Red Hook, Brooklyn
2008 · Movie
How to Conduct a Love Affair
2007 · Movie
Today!
2007 · Movie
What The Water Said, Nos. 4-6
2007 · Movie
Shrimp Boat Log
2006 · Movie
Film for Invisible Ink case no. 71: BASE-PLUS-FOG
2006 · Movie
The Great Art of Knowing
2004 · Movie
Fragrant Portals, Bright Particulars and the Edge of Space
2003 · Movie
Secret History of the Dividing Line
2002 · Movie
The Enjoyment of Reading, Lost and Found
2001 · Movie
Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises or the Doctrine of Handy-Works Applied to the Art of Printing
1999 · Movie
What The Water Said, Nos. 1-3
1998 · Movie
Hardwood Process
1996 · Movie
Silver Align
1995 · Movie