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30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

David Gatten

David Gatten at IFFR

  • 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

  • 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

  • After Writing

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

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • How to Conduct a Love Affair

    An unexpected letter leads to an extravagant gift.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Hardwood Process

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

    • Short: Starting from Scratch

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

    • Ex Voto: Mapping the Heart

  • 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.’

    • exploding cinema