David Gatten Movies

  • 2002
    Secret History of the Dividing Line

    Secret History of the Dividing Line

    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...

    Secret History of the Dividing Line
  • 2006
    Shrimp Boat Log

    Shrimp Boat Log

    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...

    Shrimp Boat Log
  • 2019
    The Heart is the Residence of the Spirit

    The Heart is the Residence of the Spirit

    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...

    The Heart is the Residence of the Spirit
  • 2016
    Narrow Rivers, Open Seas & Seventeen Sunsets (Silences for A Merchant Mariner)

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

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

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    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,...

    Narrow Rivers, Open Seas & Seventeen Sunsets (Silences for A Merchant Mariner)
  • 2016
    Intermission

    Intermission

    Intermission

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    Four short interludes on filmmaking, chemistry, the American West and interplanetary communications.

    Intermission
  • 2015
    Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

    Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

    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...

    Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
  • 2008
    Today! (excerpts)

    Today! (excerpts)

    Today! (excerpts)

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    Continuation of the "Today!" collaboration between David Gatten and Jessie Stead.

    Today! (excerpts)
  • 2008
    Today! (excerpts #28 and #19)

    Today! (excerpts #28 and #19)

    Today! (excerpts #28 and #19)

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    Continuation of the "Today!" collaboration between David Gatten and Jessie Stead.

    Today! (excerpts #28 and #19)
  • 2007
    Today!

    Today!

    Today!

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    "Starring Jessie Stead as ‘one of the filmmakers’ and assorted plastic receptacles. Transmutations of small ideas occur in random...

    Today!
  • 2003
    Fragrant Portals, Bright Particulars and the Edge of Space

    Fragrant Portals, Bright Particulars and the Edge of Space

    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...

    Fragrant Portals, Bright Particulars and the Edge of Space
  • 2001
    The Enjoyment of Reading, Lost and Found

    The Enjoyment of Reading, Lost and Found

    The Enjoyment of Reading, Lost and Found

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    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...

    The Enjoyment of Reading, Lost and Found
  • 1995
    Silver Align

    Silver Align

    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.

    Silver Align
  • 2004
    The Great Art of Knowing

    The Great Art of Knowing

    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...

    The Great Art of Knowing