David Gatten
Known for: Directing
Born: February 11, 1971
Place of birth: 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]
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Filmography
37 movies · 0 TV shows, newest first
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The Dusting of the Books
2028NR
The World is Bound with Secret Knots
2028
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The Spirit Lamp
2025
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This Day’s Madness did prepare Tomorrow’s Silence
2021
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The Heart is the Residence of the Spirit
2019
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Narrow Rivers, Open Seas & Seventeen Sunsets (Silences for A Merchant Mariner)
2018
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Odysseus and the Oceanic Feeling
2017
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Intermission
2016
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The Illinois Parables
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China monumentis (A Roll for Peter)
2016
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Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions
2016
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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
2015
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What Places of Heaven, What Planets Directed, How Long the Effects? or, The General Accidents of the World
2013
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By Pain and Rhyme and Arabesques of Foraging
2013
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The Extravagant Shadows
2012
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The Matter Propounded, of Its Possibility and Impossibility, Treated in Four Parts
2011
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So Sure of Nowhere Buying Times to Come
2010
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Film for Invisible Ink, case no. 323. Once Upon a Time in the West
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Ordinary Time, Equivocal Inventory
2009
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Journals and Remarks
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Today! (excerpts)
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Today! (excerpts #28 and #19)
2008![Film for Invisible Ink, Case No. 142: ABBREVIATION FOR DEAD WINTER [Diminished by 1,794]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw342%2FhjjoZKt940oSgrdkTUDLts2YCLZ.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
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Film for Invisible Ink, Case No. 142: ABBREVIATION FOR DEAD WINTER [Diminished by 1,794]
2008
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Rete: Red Hook, Brooklyn
2008
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How to Conduct a Love Affair
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Today!
2007
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What The Water Said, Nos. 4-6
2007
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Shrimp Boat Log
2006
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Film for Invisible Ink case no. 71: BASE-PLUS-FOG
2006
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The Great Art of Knowing
2004
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Fragrant Portals, Bright Particulars and the Edge of Space
2003
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Secret History of the Dividing Line
2002
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The Enjoyment of Reading, Lost and Found
2001
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Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises or the Doctrine of Handy-Works Applied to the Art of Printing
1999
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What The Water Said, Nos. 1-3
1998
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Hardwood Process
1996
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Silver Align
1995