David Gatten

Four uncut camera rolls, unspooled intermittently across thirteen years. One is a portrait of a friend, another is of a particular plant, the third...

01 de jan. de 2016

Cut-glass gleaming, shards of vision interrupted, reformulated, and freshly shaped into a response to the power of words and their ability to both ...

06 de jun. de 2013

An unexpected letter leads to an unanticipated encounter. Some windows open easily; other shadows remain locked rooms. Have a cup of tea dear. I’ll...

15 de nov. de 2007

10 minutes, color, silent, 16mm

01 de jan. de 2009

"Linked together by the texturality of forgotten objects and frayed (or physically manipulated) imprinted text images, the film represents a themat...

09 de out. de 1999

Strips of previously unexposed film went into the ocean and these fragments are what returned. In this final installment of a nine year project doc...

16 de jun. de 2007

Suggestion is the rock, and the physical evidence is the evanescent spray that breaks against the unseen. Transitive enharmonics of things touching...

05 de out. de 2012

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.

07 de out. de 2006

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 rive...

11 de nov. de 2021

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 thos...

03 de fev. de 1996

Paired texts as dueling histories; a journey imagined and remembered; 57 mileage markers produce an equal number of prospects. The latest in a seri...

16 de nov. de 2002

"The work deals with Taoist practices of Internal Alchemy and their accompanying texts. The inter-titles were mostly adapted from The Secret Text o...

01 de jan. de 2019

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 thre...

19 de mar. de 1998

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. ...

01 de jan. de 2010

"Excerpts from Sir Thomas Browne's 1658 text Hydriotaphia Urne-Buriall Or, A Brief Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes Lately Found in Norfolk are ...

13 de nov. de 2010

3 minutes, black and white, silent, 16mm

01 de jan. de 2016

JOURNAL AND REMARKS, the second reel of the ongoing Continuous Quantities series, contains 700 shots, 29 frames each, shuttling between the 1839 ve...

01 de jan. de 2009

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 figu...

01 de jan. de 2015

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, of boats; s...

01 de jan. de 2016

This timeless experimental film draws on the work of 17th century scientist Robert Boyle to present a varied combination of texts, objects, colours...

24 de jan. de 2013

“A companion of sorts to WHAT THE WATER SAID. An attempt to assess the potentials, possibilities and pitfalls of finding meaning in – or assigning ...

01 de jan. de 2003

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 fir...

01 de jan. de 2001

"This chapter of my ongoing exploration of the Byrd library finds its name and shape within a single volume from that collection: Athanasius Kirche...

30 de out. de 2004