David Gatten Movies
- 2002
Secret History of the Dividing Line
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Paired texts as dueling histories; a journey imagined and remembered; 57 mileage markers produce an equal number of prospects. The latest in a series...
- 2006
Shrimp Boat Log
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SHRIMP BOAT LOG, the first reel of the ongoing CONTINUOUS QUANTITIES series, contains 300 shots, 29 frames each, alternating between a notebook...
- 2019
The Heart is the Residence of the Spirit
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"The work deals with Taoist practices of Internal Alchemy and their accompanying texts. The inter-titles were mostly adapted from The Secret Text of...
- 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,...
- 2016
Intermission
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Four short interludes on filmmaking, chemistry, the American West and interplanetary communications.
- 2015
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
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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)
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Continuation of the "Today!" collaboration between David Gatten and Jessie Stead.
- 2008
Today! (excerpts #28 and #19)
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Continuation of the "Today!" collaboration between David Gatten and Jessie Stead.
- 2007
Today!
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"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
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“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
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"This chapter of my ongoing exploration of the Byrd library finds its name and shape within a single volume from that collection: Athanasius...