David Gatten Trailers
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Film for Invisible Ink, Case No. 142: ABBREVIATION FOR DEAD WINTER [Diminished by 1,794] Trailer (2008)
01 January 2008
“A single piece of paper, a second stab at suture, a story three times over, a frame for every mile.
Shrimp Boat Log Trailer (2006)
15 October 2006
SHRIMP BOAT LOG, the first reel of the ongoing CONTINUOUS QUANTITIES series, contains 300 shots, 29 frames each, alternating between a notebook listing the names of shrimp boats that frequent the mouth of the Edisto River and images of these same boats.
The Illinois Parables Trailer (2016)
22 January 2016
From dreamy aerial opening shots, we are sent on an expedition through the storied land of our fifth most populous state, Illinois, often called a miniature version of America.
What The Water Said, Nos. 1-3 Trailer (1998)
19 March 1998
The result of a series of camera-less collaborations between the filmmaker, the Atlantic Ocean, and a crab trap.
Film for Invisible Ink case no. 71: BASE-PLUS-FOG Trailer (2006)
07 October 2006
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.
This Day’s Madness did prepare Tomorrow’s Silence Trailer (2021)
11 November 2021
There are two women. Or there were two women. Or there will be two women. One of them is here today. No one knows about tomorrow.
Intermission Trailer (2016)
30 December 2016
Four short interludes on filmmaking, chemistry, the American West and interplanetary communications.
Odysseus and the Oceanic Feeling Trailer (2017)
05 May 2017
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.
The Matter Propounded, of Its Possibility and Impossibility, Treated in Four Parts Trailer (2011)
01 January 2011
Close your eyes. Take a deep breath. Concentrate your attention. What Question will you ask? The Matter Propounded.
China monumentis (A Roll for Peter) Trailer (2016)
01 January 2016
3 minutes, black and white, silent, 16mm
Secret History of the Dividing Line Trailer (2002)
16 November 2002
Paired texts as dueling histories; a journey imagined and remembered; 57 mileage markers produce an equal number of prospects.
Film for Invisible Ink, case no. 323. Once Upon a Time in the West Trailer (2010)
01 January 2010
Film for Invisible Ink, case no. 323: ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (2010), was composed as an epithalamium, or matrimonial poem, for Erin Espelie.
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Trailer (2016)
01 January 2016
Four uncut camera rolls, unspooled intermittently across thirteen years. One is a portrait of a friend, another is of a particular plant, the third of one kind of family, the fourth of another kind; all of them photographed to mark a particular time or a specific event.
The Extravagant Shadows Trailer (2012)
05 October 2012
Suggestion is the rock, and the physical evidence is the evanescent spray that breaks against the unseen.
Today! (excerpts) Trailer (2008)
15 October 2008
Continuation of the "Today!" collaboration between David Gatten and Jessie Stead.
Today! Trailer (2007)
15 October 2007
"Starring Jessie Stead as ‘one of the filmmakers’ and assorted plastic receptacles. Transmutations of small ideas occur in random locations (two of which are exotic).
How to Conduct a Love Affair Trailer (2007)
15 November 2007
An unexpected letter leads to an unanticipated encounter. Some windows open easily; other shadows remain locked rooms.
The Great Art of Knowing Trailer (2004)
30 October 2004
"This chapter of my ongoing exploration of the Byrd library finds its name and shape within a single volume from that collection: Athanasius Kircher's 17th century encyclopedia, THE GREAT ART OF KNOWING.
Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises or the Doctrine of Handy-Works Applied to the Art of Printing Trailer (1999)
09 October 1999
"Linked together by the texturality of forgotten objects and frayed (or physically manipulated) imprinted text images, the film represents a thematic collapsing of distinct objects that further erases the bounds between image (and text) from meaning, where recursive shifting of once seemingly separate entities become alternate presentations of a visible (and invisible) continuum - a decontextualized mood piece where absence and emptiness become increasingly tactile - an impression.
Hardwood Process Trailer (1996)
03 February 1996
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 we are trying to learn.
Today! (excerpts #28 and #19) Trailer (2008)
15 October 2008
Continuation of the "Today!" collaboration between David Gatten and Jessie Stead.
So Sure of Nowhere Buying Times to Come Trailer (2010)
13 November 2010
"Excerpts from Sir Thomas Browne's 1658 text Hydriotaphia Urne-Buriall Or, A Brief Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes Lately Found in Norfolk are superimposed with the stone faces of grave markers and burial urns.
Journals and Remarks Trailer (2009)
01 January 2009
JOURNAL AND REMARKS, the second reel of the ongoing Continuous Quantities series, contains 700 shots, 29 frames each, shuttling between the 1839 version of what later became Charles Darwin’s A Voyage of the Beagle (1845) and images I gathered on a recent trip to the Galapagos Islands.
Narrow Rivers, Open Seas & Seventeen Sunsets (Silences for A Merchant Mariner) Trailer (2018)
11 March 2018
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, of boats; shrimp boats in particular.
The Spirit Lamp Trailer (2025)
27 September 2025
A limited-run performance of songs written by David Lynch and Chrystabell, with Chrystabell performing the material to tracks of David’s instrumentation, enveloped in the stunning organic images created specifically for The Spirit Lamp by internationally renowned experimental filmmaker David Gatten.
What The Water Said, Nos. 4-6 Trailer (2007)
16 June 2007
Strips of previously unexposed film went into the ocean and these fragments are what returned. In this final installment of a nine year project documenting the underwater world off the coast of South Carolina, both the sounds and images are the result of the oceanic inscriptions written directly into the emulsion of the film as it was buffeted by the salt water, sand and rocks; as it was chewed by the crabs, fish and underwater creatures.
What Places of Heaven, What Planets Directed, How Long the Effects? or, The General Accidents of the World Trailer (2013)
06 June 2013
Cut-glass gleaming, shards of vision interrupted, reformulated, and freshly shaped into a response to the power of words and their ability to both describe and create sensations of outer worlds and inner realities.
The Heart is the Residence of the Spirit Trailer (2019)
01 January 2019
"The work deals with Taoist practices of Internal Alchemy and their accompanying texts. The inter-titles were mostly adapted from The Secret Text of Green Fluorescence (ca.
By Pain and Rhyme and Arabesques of Foraging Trailer (2013)
24 January 2013
This timeless experimental film draws on the work of 17th century scientist Robert Boyle to present a varied combination of texts, objects, colours and textures.
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Trailer (2015)
01 January 2015
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 figures on fixed-out filmstock.
Silver Align Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
A portrait of one of Gatten's mentors, the filmmaker Zack Stiglicz, filming on the shore of Lake Michigan.
Fragrant Portals, Bright Particulars and the Edge of Space Trailer (2003)
01 January 2003
“A companion of sorts to WHAT THE WATER SAID. An attempt to assess the potentials, possibilities and pitfalls of finding meaning in – or assigning human meaning to – the natural world; by way of Wallace Stevens.
The Enjoyment of Reading, Lost and Found Trailer (2001)
01 January 2001
A closely watched candle and an invitation to the dance. William Byrd booms among his books while Evelyn keeps to a quiet window; the volunteer fire brigade sorts through the ashes and Isaac Goldberg tells it like it is.
