David Gatten Movies
- 2006
Film for Invisible Ink case no. 71: BASE-PLUS-FOG
Film for Invisible Ink case no. 71: BASE-PLUS-FOG02006HD
We search for focus, the evidence is thin, but like breath on a mirror it speaks of life and provides a compass for the way home.
- 2010
So Sure of Nowhere Buying Times to Come
So Sure of Nowhere Buying Times to Come02010HD
"Excerpts from Sir Thomas Browne's 1658 text Hydriotaphia Urne-Buriall Or, A Brief Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes Lately Found in Norfolk are...
- 2009
Journals and Remarks
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JOURNAL AND REMARKS, the second reel of the ongoing Continuous Quantities series, contains 700 shots, 29 frames each, shuttling between the 1839...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 2015
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry02015HD
Past visions of future utopias suggest a manner of movement to make one's way through life. Pigment and paint, sun and snow, ice and rain form...
- 2008
Today! (excerpts #28 and #19)
Today! (excerpts #28 and #19)02008HD
Continuation of the "Today!" collaboration between David Gatten and Jessie Stead.
- 2008
Today! (excerpts)
Today! (excerpts)02008HD
Continuation of the "Today!" collaboration between David Gatten and Jessie Stead.
- 2007
Today!
Today!02007HD
"Starring Jessie Stead as ‘one of the filmmakers’ and assorted plastic receptacles. Transmutations of small ideas occur in random...
- 2003
Fragrant Portals, Bright Particulars and the Edge of Space
Fragrant Portals, Bright Particulars and the Edge of Space02003HD
“A companion of sorts to WHAT THE WATER SAID. An attempt to assess the potentials, possibilities and pitfalls of finding meaning in – or...
- 2001
The Enjoyment of Reading, Lost and Found
The Enjoyment of Reading, Lost and Found02001HD
A closely watched candle and an invitation to the dance. William Byrd booms among his books while Evelyn keeps to a quiet window; the volunteer fire...
- 1995
Silver Align
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A portrait of one of Gatten's mentors, the filmmaker Zack Stiglicz, filming on the shore of Lake Michigan.
- 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...