About

Known credits:
33
Birthday:
1971-02-11
Place of birth:
Ann Arbor, Michigan
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David Gatten

Overview

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

Acting
2017 Odysseus and the Oceanic Feeling Actor Narrator N/A
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2016 Intermission Actor Narrator N/A
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2016 The Illinois Parables Actor Himself 59
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Directing
2021 This Day’s Madness did prepare Tomorrow’s Silence Directing Director N/A
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2019 The Heart is the Residence of the Spirit Directing Director N/A
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2016 China monumentis (A Roll for Peter) Directing Director N/A
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2016 Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Directing Director N/A
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2016 Narrow Rivers, Open Seas & Seventeen Sunsets (Silences for A Merchant Mariner) Directing Director N/A
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2015 Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Directing Director N/A
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2013 What Places of Heaven, What Planets Directed, How Long the Effects? or, The General Accidents of the World Directing Director 58
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2013 By Pain and Rhyme and Arabesques of Foraging Directing Director N/A
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2012 The Extravagant Shadows Directing Director N/A
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2011 The Matter Propounded, of Its Possibility and Impossibility, Treated in Four Parts Directing Director N/A
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2010 So Sure of Nowhere Buying Times to Come Directing Director N/A
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2010 Film for Invisible Ink, case no. 323. Once Upon a Time in the West Directing Director N/A
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2009 Ordinary Time, Equivocal Inventory Directing Director N/A
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2009 Journals and Remarks Directing Director N/A
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2008 Today! (excerpts #28 and #19) Directing Director N/A
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2008 Today! (excerpts) Directing Director N/A
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2008 Film for Invisible Ink, Case No. 142: ABBREVIATION FOR DEAD WINTER [Diminished by 1,794] Directing Director N/A
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2007 How to Conduct a Love Affair Directing Director N/A
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2007 Today! Directing Director N/A
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2007 What The Water Said, Nos. 4-6 Directing Director 58
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2006 Shrimp Boat Log Directing Director N/A
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2006 Film for Invisible Ink case no. 71: BASE-PLUS-FOG Directing Director N/A
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2004 The Great Art of Knowing Directing Director N/A
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2003 Fragrant Portals, Bright Particulars and the Edge of Space Directing Director N/A
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2002 Secret History of the Dividing Line Directing Director 58
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2001 The Enjoyment of Reading, Lost and Found Directing Director N/A
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1999 Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises or the Doctrine of Handy-Works Applied to the Art of Printing Directing Director 58
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1998 What The Water Said, Nos. 1-3 Directing Director 58
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1996 Hardwood Process Directing Director 58
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1995 Silver Align Directing Director N/A
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