David Gatten Movies
- 2013
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 World62013HD
Cut-glass gleaming, shards of vision interrupted, reformulated, and freshly shaped into a response to the power of words and their ability to both...
- 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...
- 2007
What The Water Said, Nos. 4-6
What The Water Said, Nos. 4-662007HD
Strips of previously unexposed film went into the ocean and these fragments are what returned. In this final installment of a nine year project...
- 2012
The Extravagant Shadows
The Extravagant Shadows02012HD
Suggestion is the rock, and the physical evidence is the evanescent spray that breaks against the unseen. Transitive enharmonics of things touching...
- 2016
The Illinois Parables
The Illinois Parables6.72016HD
From dreamy aerial opening shots, we are sent on an expedition through the storied land of our fifth most populous state, Illinois, often called a...
- 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...
- 2011
The Matter Propounded, of Its Possibility and Impossibility, Treated in Four Parts
The Matter Propounded, of Its Possibility and Impossibility, Treated in Four Parts02011HD
Close your eyes. Take a deep breath. Concentrate your attention. What Question will you ask? The Matter Propounded... makes use of an early...
- 2007
How to Conduct a Love Affair
How to Conduct a Love Affair02007HD
An unexpected letter leads to an unanticipated encounter. Some windows open easily; other shadows remain locked rooms. Have a cup of tea dear....
- 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...
- 2010
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 West02010HD
Film for Invisible Ink, case no. 323: ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (2010), was composed as an epithalamium, or matrimonial poem, for Erin Espelie....
- 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...
- 2009
Ordinary Time, Equivocal Inventory
Ordinary Time, Equivocal Inventory02009HD
10 minutes, color, silent, 16mm
- 1998
What The Water Said, Nos. 1-3
What The Water Said, Nos. 1-361998HD
The result of a series of camera-less collaborations between the filmmaker, the Atlantic Ocean, and a crab trap. For three days in January and three...
- 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,...
- 2016
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions02016HD
Four uncut camera rolls, unspooled intermittently across thirteen years. One is a portrait of a friend, another is of a particular plant, the third...
- 2016
China monumentis (A Roll for Peter)
China monumentis (A Roll for Peter)02016HD
3 minutes, black and white, silent, 16mm
- 2006
Shrimp Boat Log
Shrimp Boat Log02006HD
SHRIMP BOAT LOG, the first reel of the ongoing CONTINUOUS QUANTITIES series, contains 300 shots, 29 frames each, alternating between a notebook...
- 2016
Intermission
Intermission02016HD
Four short interludes on filmmaking, chemistry, the American West and interplanetary communications.
- 2019
The Heart is the Residence of the Spirit
The Heart is the Residence of the Spirit02019HD
"The work deals with Taoist practices of Internal Alchemy and their accompanying texts. The inter-titles were mostly adapted from The Secret Text of...
- 2017
Odysseus and the Oceanic Feeling
Odysseus and the Oceanic Feeling02017HD
A queer contemporary re-imagining of the Odyssey. Odysseus wracked with guilt for the loss of his crew returns home in search of a lost love. An...