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David Gatten
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 inters…
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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]
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2028
The Dusting of the Books
Movie Director
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2028
The World is Bound with Secret Knots
Movie Director
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2025
The Spirit Lamp
Movie Director
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2021
This Day’s Madness did prepare Tomorrow’s Silence
Movie Director
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2019
The Heart is the Residence of the Spirit
Movie Director
- 2018
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2017
Odysseus and the Oceanic Feeling
Movie Narrator
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2016
Intermission
Movie Narrator
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2016
The Illinois Parables
Movie Himself
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2016
China monumentis (A Roll for Peter)
Movie Director
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2016
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions
Movie Director
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2015
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
Movie Director
- 2013
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2013
By Pain and Rhyme and Arabesques of Foraging
Movie Director
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2012
The Extravagant Shadows
Movie Director
- 2011
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2010
So Sure of Nowhere Buying Times to Come
Movie Director
- 2010
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2009
Journals and Remarks
Movie Director
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2009
Ordinary Time, Equivocal Inventory
Movie Director
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2008
Today! (excerpts)
Movie Director
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2008
Today! (excerpts #28 and #19)
Movie Director
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2008
Rete: Red Hook, Brooklyn
Movie Director
- 2008
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2007
How to Conduct a Love Affair
Movie Director
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2007
Today!
Movie Director
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2007
What The Water Said, Nos. 4-6
Movie Director
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2006
Shrimp Boat Log
Movie Director
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2006
Film for Invisible Ink case no. 71: BASE-PLUS-FOG
Movie Director
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2004
The Great Art of Knowing
Movie Director
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2003
Fragrant Portals, Bright Particulars and the Edge of Space
Movie Director
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2002
Secret History of the Dividing Line
Movie Director
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2001
The Enjoyment of Reading, Lost and Found
Movie Director
- 1999
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1998
What The Water Said, Nos. 1-3
Movie Director
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1996
Hardwood Process
Movie Director
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1995
Silver Align
Movie Director
