David Gatten

David Gatten at IFFR

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  Film for Invisible Ink, case no.71: BASE-PLUS-FOG

  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.

  • Short: As Long As It Takes
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  What the Water Said, no. 4

  Film stock was thrown in the ocean and these fragments came back.

  • Short: As Long As It Takes

• Hardwood Process

  A handmade diary film generated from alternative processing techniques.

  • from scratcch
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  After Writing

  Aftermath… Hieroglyphs inhaled in the dust, nothing written in stone but upon blackboards, mirrorwise.

  • Short: As Long As It Takes
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  How to Conduct a Love Affair

  An unexpected letter leads to an extravagant gift.

  • Short: As Long As It Takes
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  Hardwood Process

  A history of scarred surfaces, an inquiry and an imagining.

  • Short: Starting from Scratch
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  What the Water Said, Nos. 4-6

  A nine-year project documenting the underwater world off the coast of South Carolina, the water speaks and scars the film emulsion.

  • Short: As Long As It Takes
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  Today!

  In the woods there is water, in the water there is sugar. Bodies are made of salt and yesterday is unaware.

  • Short: As Long As It Takes
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  Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises

  Knew that it had to and knew that it should: be free from the page and slide ’till reborn. Knew that it had to and knew that it would: flashl

  • Ex Voto: Mapping the Heart
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  Secret History of the Dividing Line

  David Gatten: ‘In some ways this is the most austere of all my films a long passage with very still, nearly static abstract landscapes with n

  • exploding cinema