David Gatten Movies

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

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

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

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    Close your eyes. Take a deep breath. Concentrate your attention. What Question will you ask? The Matter Propounded... makes use of an early...

    The Matter Propounded, of Its Possibility and Impossibility, Treated in Four Parts
  • 2017
    Odysseus and the Oceanic Feeling

    Odysseus and the Oceanic Feeling

    Odysseus and the Oceanic Feeling

    02017HD

    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...

    Odysseus and the Oceanic Feeling
  • 2015
    Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

    Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

    Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

    02015HD

    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
    Rete: Red Hook, Brooklyn

    Rete: Red Hook, Brooklyn

    Rete: Red Hook, Brooklyn

    02008HD

    In my hand I hold a leaf from the tree outside my window. Old hand lined now age and experience veins grown larger. Central vein on the leaf stems my...

    Rete: Red Hook, Brooklyn
  • 2018
    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)

    02018HD

    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
    China monumentis (A Roll for Peter)

    China monumentis (A Roll for Peter)

    China monumentis (A Roll for Peter)

    02016HD

    3 minutes, black and white, silent, 16mm

    China monumentis (A Roll for Peter)
  • 2012
    The Extravagant Shadows

    The Extravagant Shadows

    The Extravagant Shadows

    52012HD

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

    The Extravagant Shadows
  • 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 World

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

    62013HD

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

    What Places of Heaven, What Planets Directed, How Long the Effects? or, The General Accidents of the World
  • 2016
    Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions

    Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions

    Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions

    02016HD

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

    Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions
  • 1996
    Hardwood Process

    Hardwood Process

    Hardwood Process

    71996HD

    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...

    Hardwood Process
  • 2004
    The Great Art of Knowing

    The Great Art of Knowing

    The Great Art of Knowing

    02004HD

    "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
  • 2006
    Shrimp Boat Log

    Shrimp Boat Log

    Shrimp Boat Log

    02006HD

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

    Today! (excerpts #28 and #19)

    Today! (excerpts #28 and #19)

    02008HD

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

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

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

    51999HD

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

    Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises or the Doctrine of Handy-Works Applied to the Art of Printing
  • 2009
    Journals and Remarks

    Journals and Remarks

    Journals and Remarks

    02009HD

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

    Journals and Remarks
  • 2007
    What The Water Said, Nos. 4-6

    What The Water Said, Nos. 4-6

    What The Water Said, Nos. 4-6

    62007HD

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

    What The Water Said, Nos. 4-6
  • 2028
    The World is Bound with Secret Knots

    The World is Bound with Secret Knots

    The World is Bound with Secret Knots

    02028HD

    Part 9 of Secret History of the Dividing Line, a True Account in Nine Parts. 2028, approx. 150 minutes, color, sound, digital.

    The World is Bound with Secret Knots