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…
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Known For
Silver Align
1995 · Movie
Intermission
2016 · Movie
Hardwood Process
1996 · Movie
Today! (excerpts)
2008 · Movie
Today!
2007 · Movie
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Film for Invisible Ink, Case No. 142: ABBREVIATION FOR DEAD WINTER [Diminished by 1,794]
2008 · Movie
The Heart is the Residence of the Spirit
2019 · Movie
What Places of Heaven, What Planets Directed, How Long the Effects? or, The General Accidents of the World
2013 · Movie
Secret History of the Dividing Line
2002 · Movie
So Sure of Nowhere Buying Times to Come
2010 · Movie
Film for Invisible Ink, case no. 323. Once Upon a Time in the West
2010 · Movie
Narrow Rivers, Open Seas & Seventeen Sunsets (Silences for A Merchant Mariner)
2018 · Movie