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David Gatten (b. 1971)

Birthplace:
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Born:
February 11, 1971

Biography from TheMovieDB

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

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