Directing
David Gatten
EN, XX cinema · 37 credits
Born
11 February 1971 (age 55)
Birthplace
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 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
Filmography
The World is Bound with Secret Knots
2028
The World is Bound with Secret Knots
Director
Narrow Rivers, Open Seas & Seventeen Sunsets (Silences for A Merchant Mariner)
Director
Intermission
as Narrator
The Illinois Parables
as Himself
China monumentis (A Roll for Peter)
2016
China monumentis (A Roll for Peter)
Director
The Matter Propounded, of Its Possibility and Impossibility, Treated in Four Parts
Director
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Hardwood Process
Director
Silver Align
Director