David Gatten

Quick Facts

Full Name	David Gatten
Occupation	Film Director
Date Of Birth	Feb 11, 1971(1971-02-11)
Age	53
Birthplace	Ann Arbor
Country	United States
Birth City	Michigan
Horoscope	Aquarius

David Gatten Biography

David Gatten is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on February 11, 1971 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Gatten was born the 11th of February 1971 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to Robert Gatten and Florence Gatten. Gatten lived in Michigan as well as Ohio until 1978 after which the family relocated from Ohio to Greensboro, North Carolina. Gatten’s fascination with the motion picture began in the middle of the 1980s, at junior high school, when he started developing video game software using an operating system called TRS-80.

Parts of the cycle were included as part of the 2001 and 2005 Whitney Biennial exhibitions and in the year 2011, all four parts that were completed were featured in the “The Unfinished Film” exhibition at the Gladstone Gallery in conjunction with work of Joseph Cornell, Sergei Eisenstein Jean-Luc Godard Dziga Vertov as well as Andy Warhol.

The second film in the cycle, The Great Art of Knowing, is generally regarded at Gatten’s most important film and was listed among the “50 Best Films of the Decade” in a 2010 Film Comment critics poll.

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.

He graduated from the university of North Carolina in Greensboro with a bachelor’s degree in Media Studies and Art History. Gatten obtained the MFA in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1998 where he worked in the company of Tatsu Aoki Daniel Eisenberg and Shellie Fleming. He is married to writer and filmmaker Erin Espelie. They reside in the old mining camp in Salina, Colorado, in Four Mile Canyon, Boulder County and their daughter Salina Gatten-Espelie. Salina Gatten-Espelie.

David Gatten Net Worth

David Gatten is one of the richest Film Director from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, David Gatten 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

David Edward Gatten (Born February 11th, 1971 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American experimental filmmaker and motion image artist. Since 1996, Gatten’s films have examined the relationship between the written word and moving images and documenting the many ways that texts function on screen as image and language frequently blurring the distinction between the two. His 16mm films typically employ cameraless techniques and are often accompanied by close-up cinematography as well as optical printing techniques. In addition to his continuous 16mm films, Gatten is currently making hybrid digital works in 16mm and has completed a digitally-only feature-length work known as The Extravagant Darks.

In the year 1996 Gatten is at creating a nine-part documentary series that draws inspiration from the library of 4,000 volumes owned by William Byrd II, an American colonial writer as well as a planter and official in the government. The individual films examine the contents of the library, while also telling stories from the lives of Byrd and his daughter Evelyn. The first four parts were finished; the fifth one was in development between 2005 until the year 2009. Writer and curator Henriette Huldisch described the series in the following way: “Focusing on specific volumes from the library, letters, and personal papers, Gatten’s series probes the relationship between printed words and images, philosophical ideas, historical records, and biography. Throughout, his thematic concerns are realized in an array of cinematic processes and techniques, constituting a parallel survey of the medium’s history.”

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.” He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005 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).

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