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