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