Directing • AGE 55
David Edward Gatten (Born February 11, 1971, Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American experimental filmmaker and moving image artist. Since 1996 Gatten's films have explored the intersection of the printed...


The Spirit Lamp
Director
2025

This Day’s Madness did prepare Tomorrow’s Silence
Director
2021

The Heart is the Residence of the Spirit
Director
2019

Narrow Rivers, Open Seas & Seventeen Sunsets (Silences for A Merchant Mariner)
Director
2018

Odysseus and the Oceanic Feeling
Narrator
2017

Intermission
Narrator
2016

The Illinois Parables
Himself
2016

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions
Director
2016

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
Director
2015

What Places of Heaven, What Planets Directed, How Long the Effects? or, The General Accidents of the World
Director
2013

By Pain and Rhyme and Arabesques of Foraging
Director
2013

The Extravagant Shadows
Director
2012

The Matter Propounded, of Its Possibility and Impossibility, Treated in Four Parts
Director
2011

So Sure of Nowhere Buying Times to Come
Director
2010

Film for Invisible Ink, case no. 323. Once Upon a Time in the West
Director
2010

Journals and Remarks
Director
2009
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Film for Invisible Ink, Case No. 142: ABBREVIATION FOR DEAD WINTER [Diminished by 1,794]
Director
2008

How to Conduct a Love Affair
Director
2007

What The Water Said, Nos. 4-6
Director
2007

Shrimp Boat Log
Director
2006

Film for Invisible Ink case no. 71: BASE-PLUS-FOG
Director
2006

The Great Art of Knowing
Director
2004

Fragrant Portals, Bright Particulars and the Edge of Space
Director
2003

Secret History of the Dividing Line
Director
2002

The Enjoyment of Reading, Lost and Found
Director
2001

Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises or the Doctrine of Handy-Works Applied to the Art of Printing
Director
1999

What The Water Said, Nos. 1-3
Director
1998

Hardwood Process
Director
1996

Silver Align
Director
1995