David Gatten Movies
- 2007
What The Water Said, Nos. 4-6
What The Water Said, Nos. 4-662007HD
Strips of previously unexposed film went into the ocean and these fragments are what returned. In this final installment of a nine year project...
- 2016
The Illinois Parables
The Illinois Parables6.72016HD
From dreamy aerial opening shots, we are sent on an expedition through the storied land of our fifth most populous state, Illinois, often called a...
- 2009
Ordinary Time, Equivocal Inventory
Ordinary Time, Equivocal Inventory02009HD
10 minutes, color, silent, 16mm
- 2013
What Places of Heaven, What Planets Directed, How Long the Effects? or, The General Accidents of the World
What Places of Heaven, What Planets Directed, How Long the Effects? or, The General Accidents of the World62013HD
In this film of textual quotations, words, like images, appear and dissipate, the spectator being unable to apprehend them. They are thus treated as...
- 2008
Film for Invisible Ink, Case No. 142: Abbreviation for Dead Winter [Diminished by 1,794]
Film for Invisible Ink, Case No. 142: Abbreviation for Dead Winter [Diminished by 1,794]02008HD
“A single piece of paper, a second stab at suture, a story three times over, a frame for every mile. With words by Charles Darwin. A...
- 1998
What The Water Said, Nos. 1-3
What The Water Said, Nos. 1-361998HD
The result of a series of camera-less collaborations between the filmmaker, the Atlantic Ocean, and a crab trap. For three days in January and three...
- 2010
Shrimp Boat Log
Shrimp Boat Log02010HD
Footage of a logbook of shrimp boat names and the boats in question at the mouth of the Edisto river on the east coast of the US, edited into 300,...
- 2016
China monumentis (A Roll for Peter)
China monumentis (A Roll for Peter)02016HD
3 minutes, black and white, silent, 16mm
- 2017
Odysseus and the Oceanic Feeling
Odysseus and the Oceanic Feeling02017HD
A queer contemporary re-imagining of the Odyssey. Odysseus wracked with guilt for the loss of his crew returns home in search of a lost love. An...
- 2011
The Matter Propounded, of Its Possibility and Impossibility, Treated in Four Parts
The Matter Propounded, of Its Possibility and Impossibility, Treated in Four Parts02011HD
Plaintive fragments from a 19th-century fortune-telling manual used to pose a series of questions
- 2010
Film for Invisible Ink, case no. 323. Once Upon a Time in the West
Film for Invisible Ink, case no. 323. Once Upon a Time in the West02010HD
Film for Invisible Ink, case no. 323: ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (2010), was composed as an epithalamium, or matrimonial poem, for Erin Espelie....
- 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.
- 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...
- 2016
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions02016HD
Four uncut camera rolls, unspooled intermittently across thirteen years. One is a portrait of a friend, another is of a particular plant, the third...
- 1999
Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises or the Doctrine of Handy-Works Applied to the Art of Printing
Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises or the Doctrine of Handy-Works Applied to the Art of Printing51999HD
"Linked together by the texturality of forgotten objects and frayed (or physically manipulated) imprinted text images, the film represents a thematic...
- 1996
Hardwood Process
Hardwood Process71996HD
A history of scarred surfaces, an inquiry, and an imagining: for the marks we see and the marks we make, for the languages we can read and for those...
- 2002
Secret History of the Dividing Line
Secret History of the Dividing Line52002HD
Paired texts as dueling histories; a journey imagined and remembered; 57 mileage markers produce an equal number of prospects. The latest in a series...
- 2021
This Day’s Madness did prepare Tomorrow’s Silence
This Day’s Madness did prepare Tomorrow’s Silence02021HD
There are two women. Or there were two women. Or there will be two women. One of them is here today. No one knows about tomorrow. There is one river,...
- 2009
Journals and Remarks
Journals and Remarks02009HD
JOURNAL AND REMARKS, the second reel of the ongoing Continuous Quantities series, contains 700 shots, 29 frames each, shuttling between the 1839...
- 2007
How to Conduct a Love Affair
How to Conduct a Love Affair02007HD
An unexpected letter leads to an unanticipated encounter. Some windows open easily; other shadows remain locked rooms. Have a cup of tea dear....