David Gatten

Person Details

Birthday: 1971-02-11 23:23:31

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Ann Arbor, Michigan

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Movie Involvements: 28

TV Involvements: 0

Most Famous Work

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, cataloging the variety of ways in which texts functions in cinema as both language and image, often blurring the boundary between these categories. His 16mm films often employee 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, he is 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 his daughter Evelyn Byrd (1707–1737). [Wikipedia]

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Acting

Year	Character	Movie/Tv
2016	Himself	The Illinois Parables 2016-01-22 Movie
Year	Character	Movie/Tv

Directing

Year	Role	Movie/Tv
2021	Director	This Day’s Madness did prepare Tomorrow’s Silence 2021-11-11 Movie
2019	Director	The Heart is the Residence of the Spirit 2019-01-01 Movie
2016	Director	Narrow Rivers, Open Seas & Seventeen Sunsets (Silences for A Merchant Mariner) 2016-01-01 Movie
	Director	Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions 2016-01-01 Movie
	Director	China monumentis (A Roll for Peter) 2016-01-01 Movie
2015	Director	Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 2015-01-01 Movie
2013	Director	What Places of Heaven, What Planets Directed, How Long the Effects? or, The General Accidents of the World 2013-06-06 Movie
	Director	By Pain and Rhyme and Arabesques of Foraging 2013-01-24 Movie
2012	Director	The Extravagant Shadows 2012-10-05 Movie
2011	Director	The Matter Propounded, of Its Possibility and Impossibility, Treated in Four Parts 2011-01-01 Movie
2010	Director	So Sure of Nowhere Buying Times to Come 2010-11-13 Movie
	Director	Film for Invisible Ink, case no. 323. Once Upon a Time in the West 2010-01-01 Movie
	Director	Shrimp Boat Log 2010-01-01 Movie
2009	Director	Ordinary Time, Equivocal Inventory 2009-01-01 Movie
	Director	Journals and Remarks 2009-01-01 Movie
2008	Director	Film for Invisible Ink, Case No. 142: Abbreviation for Dead Winter [Diminished by 1,794] 2008-01-01 Movie
2007	Director	How to Conduct a Love Affair 2007-11-15 Movie
	Director	What The Water Said, Nos. 4-6 2007-06-16 Movie
2006	Director	Film for Invisible Ink case no. 71: Base-Plus-Fog 2006-10-07 Movie
2004	Director	The Great Art of Knowing 2004-10-30 Movie
2003	Director	Fragrant Portals, Bright Particulars and the Edge of Space 2003-01-01 Movie
2002	Director	Secret History of the Dividing Line 2002-11-16 Movie
2001	Director	The Enjoyment of Reading, Lost and Found 2001-01-01 Movie
1999	Director	Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises or the Doctrine of Handy-Works Applied to the Art of Printing 1999-10-09 Movie
	Director	Secret History of the Dividing Line, a True Account in Nine Parts 1999-01-01 Movie
1998	Director	What The Water Said, Nos. 1-3 1998-03-19 Movie
1996	Director	Hardwood Process 1996-02-03 Movie
1995	Director	Silver Align 1995-01-01 Movie
Year	Role	Movie/Tv