David Gatten
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- 11 February 1971 · 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]
Known for
Directing 34
- 2028The World is Bound with Secret Knots · director
- 2028The Dusting of the Books · director
- 2025The Spirit Lamp · director
- 2021This Day’s Madness did prepare Tomorrow’s Silence · director
- 2019The Heart is the Residence of the Spirit · director
- 2018Narrow Rivers, Open Seas & Seventeen Sunsets (Silences for A Merchant Mariner) · director
- 2016Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions · director
- 2016China monumentis (A Roll for Peter) · director
- 2015Crossing Brooklyn Ferry · director
- 2013What Places of Heaven, What Planets Directed, How Long the Effects? or, The General Accidents of the World · director
- 2013By Pain and Rhyme and Arabesques of Foraging · director
- 2012The Extravagant Shadows · director
- 2011The Matter Propounded, of Its Possibility and Impossibility, Treated in Four Parts · director
- 2010So Sure of Nowhere Buying Times to Come · director
- 2010Film for Invisible Ink, case no. 323. Once Upon a Time in the West · director
- 2009Ordinary Time, Equivocal Inventory · director
- 2009Journals and Remarks · director
- 2008Today! (excerpts #28 and #19) · director
- 2008Today! (excerpts) · director
- 2008Rete: Red Hook, Brooklyn · director
- 2008Film for Invisible Ink, Case No. 142: ABBREVIATION FOR DEAD WINTER [Diminished by 1,794] · director
- 2007How to Conduct a Love Affair · director
- 2007Today! · director
- 2007What The Water Said, Nos. 4-6 · director
- 2006Shrimp Boat Log · director
- 2006Film for Invisible Ink case no. 71: BASE-PLUS-FOG · director
- 2004The Great Art of Knowing · director
- 2003Fragrant Portals, Bright Particulars and the Edge of Space · director
- 2002Secret History of the Dividing Line · director
- 2001The Enjoyment of Reading, Lost and Found · director
- 1999Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises or the Doctrine of Handy-Works Applied to the Art of Printing · director
- 1998What The Water Said, Nos. 1-3 · director
- 1996Hardwood Process · director
- 1995Silver Align · director
Acting 3
- 2017Odysseus and the Oceanic Feeling as Narrator
- 2016Intermission as Narrator
- 2016The Illinois Parables as Himself