David Gatten Movies
- 2021
This Day’s Madness did prepare Tomorrow’s Silence
This Day’s Madness did prepare Tomorrow’s Silence02021HD
There are two women. Or there were two women. Or there will be two women. One of them is here today. No one knows about tomorrow. There is one river,...
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- 2007
How to Conduct a Love Affair
How to Conduct a Love Affair62007HD
An unexpected letter leads to an unanticipated encounter. Some windows open easily; other shadows remain locked rooms. Have a cup of tea dear....
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- 2008
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]02008HD
“A single piece of paper, a second stab at suture, a story three times over, a frame for every mile. With words by Charles Darwin. A...
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- 1995
Silver Align
Silver Align01995HD
A portrait of one of Gatten's mentors, the filmmaker Zack Stiglicz, filming on the shore of Lake Michigan.
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- 2013
By Pain and Rhyme and Arabesques of Foraging
By Pain and Rhyme and Arabesques of Foraging02013HD
This timeless experimental film draws on the work of 17th century scientist Robert Boyle to present a varied combination of texts, objects, colours...
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- 1999
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 Printing51999HD
"Linked together by the texturality of forgotten objects and frayed (or physically manipulated) imprinted text images, the film represents a thematic...
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- 2010
So Sure of Nowhere Buying Times to Come
So Sure of Nowhere Buying Times to Come62010HD
"Excerpts from Sir Thomas Browne's 1658 text Hydriotaphia Urne-Buriall Or, A Brief Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes Lately Found in Norfolk are...
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- 1996
Hardwood Process
Hardwood Process71996HD
A history of scarred surfaces, an inquiry, and an imagining: for the marks we see and the marks we make, for the languages we can read and for those...
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- 2002
Secret History of the Dividing Line
Secret History of the Dividing Line52002HD
Paired texts as dueling histories; a journey imagined and remembered; 57 mileage markers produce an equal number of prospects. The latest in a series...
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- 2009
Ordinary Time, Equivocal Inventory
Ordinary Time, Equivocal Inventory02009HD
10 minutes, color, silent, 16mm
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- 2016
China monumentis (A Roll for Peter)
China monumentis (A Roll for Peter)02016HD
3 minutes, black and white, silent, 16mm
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- 2016
Narrow Rivers, Open Seas & Seventeen Sunsets (Silences for A Merchant Mariner)
Narrow Rivers, Open Seas & Seventeen Sunsets (Silences for A Merchant Mariner)02016HD
The last time I had dinner with Peter we spoke of sunsets – both sunsets we had experienced and sunsets we had filmed – and, of course,...
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- 2004
The Great Art of Knowing
The Great Art of Knowing02004HD
"This chapter of my ongoing exploration of the Byrd library finds its name and shape within a single volume from that collection: Athanasius...
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