David Gatten
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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February 11, 1971Gender
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31Place of birth
Ann Arbor, MichiganCast credits
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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
DirectorThe Extravagant Shadows
DirectorThe Heart is the Residence of the Spirit
DirectorSecret History of the Dividing Line
DirectorHardwood Process
DirectorThis Day’s Madness did prepare Tomorrow’s Silence
DirectorWhat The Water Said, Nos. 4-6
DirectorThe Great Art of Knowing
DirectorShrimp Boat Log
DirectorWhat The Water Said, Nos. 1-3
DirectorSo Sure of Nowhere Buying Times to Come
DirectorWhat Places of Heaven, What Planets Directed, How Long the Effects? or, The General Accidents of the World
DirectorMoxon’s Mechanick Exercises or the Doctrine of Handy-Works Applied to the Art of Printing
DirectorFilm for Invisible Ink, case no. 323. Once Upon a Time in the West
DirectorBy Pain and Rhyme and Arabesques of Foraging
DirectorFilm for Invisible Ink case no. 71: Base-Plus-Fog
DirectorThe Enjoyment of Reading, Lost and Found
DirectorFragrant Portals, Bright Particulars and the Edge of Space
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