David Gatten
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- February 11, 1971 (age 55)
- Birthplace
- Ann Arbor, Michigan
Biography
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
The Extravagant Shadows
Secret History of the Dividing Line
What The Water Said, Nos. 4-6
What The Water Said, Nos. 1-3
So Sure of Nowhere Buying Times to Come
What Places of Heaven, What Planets Directed, How Long the Effects? or, The General Accidents of the World
Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises or the Doctrine of Handy-Works Applied to the Art of Printing
How to Conduct a Love Affair
Odysseus and the Oceanic Feeling
Intermission
Filmography
The Dusting of the Books
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The World is Bound with Secret Knots
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The Spirit Lamp
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This Day’s Madness did prepare Tomorrow’s Silence
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The Heart is the Residence of the Spirit
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Narrow Rivers, Open Seas & Seventeen Sunsets (Silences for A Merchant Mariner)
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China monumentis (A Roll for Peter)
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Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions
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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
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What Places of Heaven, What Planets Directed, How Long the Effects? or, The General Accidents of the World
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By Pain and Rhyme and Arabesques of Foraging
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The Extravagant Shadows
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The Matter Propounded, of Its Possibility and Impossibility, Treated in Four Parts
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So Sure of Nowhere Buying Times to Come
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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
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Journals and Remarks
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Film for Invisible Ink, Case No. 142: ABBREVIATION FOR DEAD WINTER [Diminished by 1,794]
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Today! (excerpts)
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Today! (excerpts #28 and #19)
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Rete: Red Hook, Brooklyn
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What The Water Said, Nos. 4-6
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How to Conduct a Love Affair
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Today!
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Shrimp Boat Log
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Film for Invisible Ink case no. 71: BASE-PLUS-FOG
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The Great Art of Knowing
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Fragrant Portals, Bright Particulars and the Edge of Space
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Secret History of the Dividing Line
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The Enjoyment of Reading, Lost and Found
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Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises or the Doctrine of Handy-Works Applied to the Art of Printing
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What The Water Said, Nos. 1-3
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Hardwood Process
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Silver Align
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