David Gatten

David Gatten

Directing

Born February 11, 1971 · Ann Arbor, Michigan

31 films as director · Active 1995–2025

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…

Known for

The Illinois Parables

The Illinois Parables

2016

Intermission

Intermission

2016

Odysseus and the Oceanic Feeling

Odysseus and the Oceanic Feeling

2017

Directed(31)

The Spirit Lamp

2025The Spirit Lamp

This Day’s Madness did prepare Tomorrow’s Silence

2021This Day’s Madness did prepare Tomorrow’s Silence

The Heart is the Residence of the Spirit

2019The Heart is the Residence of the Spirit

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

2018Narrow Rivers, Open Seas & Seventeen Sunsets (Silences for A Merchant Mariner)

2016China monumentis (A Roll for Peter)

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions

2016Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

2015Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

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

2013What Places of Heaven, What Planets Directed, How Long the Effects? or, The General Accidents of the World★ 6.0

By Pain and Rhyme and Arabesques of Foraging

2013By Pain and Rhyme and Arabesques of Foraging

The Extravagant Shadows

2012The Extravagant Shadows★ 5.0

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

2011The Matter Propounded, of Its Possibility and Impossibility, Treated in Four Parts

So Sure of Nowhere Buying Times to Come

2010So Sure of Nowhere Buying Times to Come★ 6.0

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

2010Film for Invisible Ink, case no. 323. Once Upon a Time in the West

2009Ordinary Time, Equivocal Inventory

Journals and Remarks

2009Journals and Remarks

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

2008Film for Invisible Ink, Case No. 142: ABBREVIATION FOR DEAD WINTER [Diminished by 1,794]

2008Today! (excerpts)

2008Today! (excerpts #28 and #19)

What The Water Said, Nos. 4-6

2007What The Water Said, Nos. 4-6★ 6.0

How to Conduct a Love Affair

2007How to Conduct a Love Affair★ 6.0

Shrimp Boat Log

2006Shrimp Boat Log

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

2006Film for Invisible Ink case no. 71: BASE-PLUS-FOG

The Great Art of Knowing

2004The Great Art of Knowing

Fragrant Portals, Bright Particulars and the Edge of Space

2003Fragrant Portals, Bright Particulars and the Edge of Space

Secret History of the Dividing Line

2002Secret History of the Dividing Line★ 5.0

The Enjoyment of Reading, Lost and Found

2001The Enjoyment of Reading, Lost and Found

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

1999Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises or the Doctrine of Handy-Works Applied to the Art of Printing★ 5.0

What The Water Said, Nos. 1-3

1998What The Water Said, Nos. 1-3★ 6.0

Hardwood Process

1996Hardwood Process★ 7.0

Silver Align

1995Silver Align

Acting(3)

2017Odysseus and the Oceanic FeelingNarrator

2016IntermissionNarrator

2016The Illinois ParablesHimself

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