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