David Gatten
Born: 1971-02-11 in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Known For: Directing
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]
Filmography
2025
- The Spirit Lamp ... (Director)
2021
- This Day’s Madness did prepare Tomorrow’s Silence ... (Director)
2019
- The Heart is the Residence of the Spirit ... (Director)
2017
- Odysseus and the Oceanic Feeling as Narrator
2016
- The Illinois Parables as Himself
- Narrow Rivers, Open Seas & Seventeen Sunsets (Silences for A Merchant Mariner) ... (Director)
- China monumentis (A Roll for Peter) ... (Director)
- Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions ... (Director)
- Intermission as Narrator
2015
- Crossing Brooklyn Ferry ... (Director)
2013
2012
- The Extravagant Shadows ... (Director)
2011
2010
- Film for Invisible Ink, case no. 323. Once Upon a Time in the West ... (Director)
- So Sure of Nowhere Buying Times to Come ... (Director)
2009
- Journals and Remarks ... (Director)
- Ordinary Time, Equivocal Inventory ... (Director)
2008
- Film for Invisible Ink, Case No. 142: ABBREVIATION FOR DEAD WINTER [Diminished by 1,794] ... (Director)
- Today! (excerpts) ... (Director)
- Today! (excerpts #28 and #19) ... (Director)
2007
- What The Water Said, Nos. 4-6 ... (Director)
- How to Conduct a Love Affair ... (Director)
- Today! ... (Director)
2006
- Film for Invisible Ink case no. 71: BASE-PLUS-FOG ... (Director)
- Shrimp Boat Log ... (Director)
2004
- The Great Art of Knowing ... (Director)
2003
- Fragrant Portals, Bright Particulars and the Edge of Space ... (Director)
2002
- Secret History of the Dividing Line ... (Director)
2001
- The Enjoyment of Reading, Lost and Found ... (Director)
1999
1998
- What The Water Said, Nos. 1-3 ... (Director)
1996
- Hardwood Process ... (Director)
1995
- Silver Align ... (Director)