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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]
Filmography
all 30
Movies 30
Director 27
Narrator 2
Intermission (2016)
The Illinois Parables (2016)
The Matter Propounded, of Its Possibility and Impossibility, Treated in Four Parts (2011)
Shrimp Boat Log (2010)
Journals and Remarks (2009)
Film for Invisible Ink, Case No. 142: Abbreviation for Dead Winter [Diminished by 1,794] (2008)
Hardwood Process (1996)
Silver Align (1995)
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GenderNon-binary
Birthday1971-02-11 (53 years old)
Birth PlaceAnn Arbor, Michigan
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