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 word and moving image, cataloging the variety of ways in which texts functions in cinema as both language and image, often blurring the boundary between these categories.[1] His 16mm films often employee cameraless techniques, combined with close-up cinematography and optical printing processes.[2][3] In addition to the ongoing 16mm films,
Gatten is now making hybrid 16mm/digital works and has completed an entirely digital feature-length project called The Extravagant Shadows.[4]
Among other projects, he is currently working on a series of films entitled Secret History of the Dividing Line, a True Account in Nine Parts, a project which Artforum magazine called "one of the most erudite and ambitious undertakings in recent cinema."[3] He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005 [5] to continue work on this series of films exploring the library of William Byrd II of Westover (1674–1744) and the lives of William Byrd and his daughter Evelyn Byrd (1707–1737).
In November 2011 Texts of Light: A Mid-Career Retrospective of Fourteen Films by David Gatten, curated by Chris Stults, opened at the Wexner Center for the Arts. The three program retrospective screened in 2012 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC; Harvard Film Archive; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and other venues in San Francesco; and at REDCAT, The LA Film Forum, and The Velaslavasay Panorama in Los Angeles.
Two of Gatten's newest works premiered in the Fall of 2012. The Extravagant Shadows is a 175-minute work of high-definition digital cinema. It premiered at Lincoln Center in the New York Film Festival.[4]The Extravagant Shadows was named one of the "Top 10 Undistributed Movies of 2012" by a Film Comment international film critics poll magazine.[6]
A hybrid 16mm/HD piece, By Pain and Rhyme and Arabesques of Foraging premiered at the British Film Institute in the London Film Festival and nominated for the Tiger award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.[7]
Gatten is currently a Professor of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts in the Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Images Arts at the University of Colorado in Boulder,[8] and a regular Visiting Artist to the MFA in Experimental & Documentary Arts program at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.[9]
^MacDonald, Scott. "Interview with David Gatten." Adventures of Perception Berkeley: University of California Press, Fall 2009.
^Armour, Nicole. "Private Investigations." Film Comment Nov./Dec. 2001: 71–72.
^ abHuldisch, Henriette. "Man of Letters." Artforum March 2006: 85.
^ abKasman, Daniel. "Love in the Painted Image". Mubi.com. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
^"All Fellows". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 20 January 2011.
^"50 Best Undistributed Films of 2012". Film Comment. 13 December 2012. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
^Kasman, Daniel. "Rotterdam 2013. Two as One as Many". Mubi.com. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
^"David Gatten". www.colorado.edu. 5 August 2015. Retrieved 2017-04-11.
^"David Gatten | Duke MFA | EDA". mfaeda.duke.edu. Retrieved 2017-04-11.
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