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.
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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.
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Short: As Long As It Takes
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Hardwood Process
A handmade diary film generated from alternative processing techniques.
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from scratcch
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After Writing
Aftermath… Hieroglyphs inhaled in the dust, nothing written in stone but upon blackboards, mirrorwise.
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Short: As Long As It Takes
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How to Conduct a Love Affair
An unexpected letter leads to an extravagant gift.
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Short: As Long As It Takes
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Hardwood Process
A history of scarred surfaces, an inquiry and an imagining.
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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.
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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.
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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: flashlight fumb
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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 no text for almost 12 minutes.’
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exploding cinema
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