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Part 9 of Secret History of the Dividing Line, a True Account in Nine Parts. 2028, approx. 150 minutes, color, sound, digital.

Part 8 of Secret History of the Dividing Line, a True Account in Nine Parts. 2028, approx. 150 minutes, color, sound, digital.

A portrait of one of Gatten's mentors, the filmmaker Zack Stiglicz, filming on the shore of Lake Michigan.

"Starring Jessie Stead as ‘one of the filmmakers’ and assorted plastic receptacles. Transmutations of small ideas occur in random...

Continuation of the "Today!" collaboration between David Gatten and Jessie Stead.

Close your eyes. Take a deep breath. Concentrate your attention. What Question will you ask? The Matter Propounded... makes use of an early...

In my hand I hold a leaf from the tree outside my window. Old hand lined now age and experience veins grown larger. Central vein on the leaf stems my...

Four short interludes on filmmaking, chemistry, the American West and interplanetary communications.

Cut-glass gleaming, shards of vision interrupted, reformulated, and freshly shaped into a response to the power of words and their ability to both...

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...

“A single piece of paper, a second stab at suture, a story three times over, a frame for every mile. With words by Charles Darwin. A...

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. There is one river,...

SHRIMP BOAT LOG, the first reel of the ongoing CONTINUOUS QUANTITIES series, contains 300 shots, 29 frames each, alternating between a notebook...

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. An...

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.

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....

“A companion of sorts to WHAT THE WATER SAID. An attempt to assess the potentials, possibilities and pitfalls of finding meaning in – or...

10 minutes, color, silent, 16mm

"Excerpts from Sir Thomas Browne's 1658 text Hydriotaphia Urne-Buriall Or, A Brief Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes Lately Found in Norfolk are...

An unexpected letter leads to an unanticipated encounter. Some windows open easily; other shadows remain locked rooms. Have a cup of tea dear....