David Gatten
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...
Filmography
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
![Film for Invisible Ink, Case No. 142: ABBREVIATION FOR DEAD WINTER [Diminished by 1,794]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/hjjoZKt940oSgrdkTUDLts2YCLZ.jpg)
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