David Gatten

Directing·Feb 11, 1971·Ann Arbor, Michigan

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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]

Film	Credit
The Spirit Lamp2025 · Director	Director
This Day’s Madness did prepare Tomorrow’s Silence2021 · Director	Director
The Heart is the Residence of the Spirit2019 · Director	Director
Narrow Rivers, Open Seas & Seventeen Sunsets (Silences for A Merchant Mariner)2018 · Director	Director
Odysseus and the Oceanic Feeling2017 · Narrator	Narrator
Intermission2016 · Narrator	Narrator
The Illinois Parables2016 · Himself	Himself
CChina monumentis (A Roll for Peter)2016 · Director	Director
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions2016 · Director	Director
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry2015 · Director	Director
What Places of Heaven, What Planets Directed, How Long the Effects? or, The General Accidents of the World2013 · Director	Director
By Pain and Rhyme and Arabesques of Foraging2013 · Director	Director
The Extravagant Shadows2012 · Director	Director
The Matter Propounded, of Its Possibility and Impossibility, Treated in Four Parts2011 · Director	Director
So Sure of Nowhere Buying Times to Come2010 · Director	Director
Film for Invisible Ink, case no. 323. Once Upon a Time in the West2010 · Director	Director
OOrdinary Time, Equivocal Inventory2009 · Director	Director
Journals and Remarks2009 · Director	Director
TToday! (excerpts)2008 · Director	Director
TToday! (excerpts #28 and #19)2008 · Director	Director
Film for Invisible Ink, Case No. 142: ABBREVIATION FOR DEAD WINTER [Diminished by 1,794]2008 · Director	Director
How to Conduct a Love Affair2007 · Director	Director
TToday!2007 · Director	Director
What The Water Said, Nos. 4-62007 · Director	Director
Shrimp Boat Log2006 · Director	Director
Film for Invisible Ink case no. 71: BASE-PLUS-FOG2006 · Director	Director
The Great Art of Knowing2004 · Director	Director
Fragrant Portals, Bright Particulars and the Edge of Space2003 · Director	Director
Secret History of the Dividing Line2002 · Director	Director
The Enjoyment of Reading, Lost and Found2001 · Director	Director
Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises or the Doctrine of Handy-Works Applied to the Art of Printing1999 · Director	Director
What The Water Said, Nos. 1-31998 · Director	Director
Hardwood Process1996 · Director	Director
Silver Align1995 · Director	Director