David Gatten

David Gatten

DirectorActor Feb 11 (age 55) Ann Arbor, Michigan 1995–2025 (30 year career)

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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 addi…

Known For

The Illinois Parables

The Illinois Parables

Himself

Hardwood Process

Hardwood Process

Director

What Places of Heaven, What Planets Directed, How Long the Effects? or, The General Accidents of the World

What Places of Heaven, What Planets Directed, How Long the Effects? or, The General Accidents of the World

Director

So Sure of Nowhere Buying Times to Come

So Sure of Nowhere Buying Times to Come

Director

What The Water Said, Nos. 4-6

What The Water Said, Nos. 4-6

Director

How to Conduct a Love Affair

How to Conduct a Love Affair

Director

What The Water Said, Nos. 1-3

What The Water Said, Nos. 1-3

Director

The Extravagant Shadows

The Extravagant Shadows

Director

Filmography

Acting (3)

Movies (3)

Odysseus and the Oceanic Feeling

Odysseus and the Oceanic Feeling

as Narrator

The Illinois Parables

The Illinois Parables

as Himself

Intermission

Intermission

as Narrator

Crew (31)

Movies (31)

The Spirit Lamp

The Spirit Lamp

Director

This Day’s Madness did prepare Tomorrow’s Silence

This Day’s Madness did prepare Tomorrow’s Silence

Director

The Heart is the Residence of the Spirit

The Heart is the Residence of the Spirit

Director

Narrow Rivers, Open Seas & Seventeen Sunsets (Silences for A Merchant Mariner)

Narrow Rivers, Open Seas & Seventeen Sunsets (Silences for A Merchant Mariner)

Director

China monumentis (A Roll for Peter)

Director

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions

Director

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

Director

What Places of Heaven, What Planets Directed, How Long the Effects? or, The General Accidents of the World

What Places of Heaven, What Planets Directed, How Long the Effects? or, The General Accidents of the World

Director

By Pain and Rhyme and Arabesques of Foraging

By Pain and Rhyme and Arabesques of Foraging

Director

The Extravagant Shadows

The Extravagant Shadows

Director

The Matter Propounded, of Its Possibility and Impossibility, Treated in Four Parts

The Matter Propounded, of Its Possibility and Impossibility, Treated in Four Parts

Director

Film for Invisible Ink, case no. 323. Once Upon a Time in the West

Film for Invisible Ink, case no. 323. Once Upon a Time in the West

Director

So Sure of Nowhere Buying Times to Come

So Sure of Nowhere Buying Times to Come

Director

Journals and Remarks

Journals and Remarks

Director

Ordinary Time, Equivocal Inventory

Director

Film for Invisible Ink, Case No. 142: ABBREVIATION FOR DEAD WINTER [Diminished by 1,794]

Film for Invisible Ink, Case No. 142: ABBREVIATION FOR DEAD WINTER [Diminished by 1,794]

Director

Today! (excerpts #28 and #19)

Director

Today! (excerpts)

Director

What The Water Said, Nos. 4-6

What The Water Said, Nos. 4-6

Director

Today!

Director

How to Conduct a Love Affair

How to Conduct a Love Affair

Director

Film for Invisible Ink case no. 71: BASE-PLUS-FOG

Film for Invisible Ink case no. 71: BASE-PLUS-FOG

Director

Shrimp Boat Log

Shrimp Boat Log

Director

The Great Art of Knowing

The Great Art of Knowing

Director

Fragrant Portals, Bright Particulars and the Edge of Space

Fragrant Portals, Bright Particulars and the Edge of Space

Director

Secret History of the Dividing Line

Secret History of the Dividing Line

Director

The Enjoyment of Reading, Lost and Found

The Enjoyment of Reading, Lost and Found

Director

Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises or the Doctrine of Handy-Works Applied to the Art of Printing

Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises or the Doctrine of Handy-Works Applied to the Art of Printing

Director

What The Water Said, Nos. 1-3

What The Water Said, Nos. 1-3

Director

Hardwood Process

Hardwood Process

Director

Silver Align

Silver Align

Director