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CalArts, Bijou Theater

FILM/VIDEO: Experimental Filmmaker David Gatten will show and discuss parts of his mid-career retrospective Texts of Light.

“Included in Cinema Scope’s recent list of “The Best Fifty Filmmakers Under Fifty” and placing among the ten highest names in a Film Comment poll of the top avant-garde filmmakers of the 2000s, David Gatten is clearly one of the most significant experimental filmmakers working today. Even if his work seems to come from a different era. “ –Berenice Reynaud

“Gatten continues to find new creative possibilities in the continuing premonitions of film’s demise.” –Scott MacDonald, Garden in the Machine

“The films of David Gatten brand the brain and the retina with equal force. They consist partly of cerebral puzzles and partly of lyrical reveries, and their central drama lies in the space between, where facts transform into poetry and transient experiences are assimilated into systems of knowledge.” –Tom McCormack, Moving Image Source

“This midcareer retrospective serves as a stocktaking (and culmination) of Gatten’s current practice at a crucial moment before he unveils a new phase of his career. The series and its tour provides viewers with a unique opportunity to have a sustained encounter with one of the most singular and focused bodies of film being produced today.” –Chris Stults, Associate Curator of Film, Wexner Center for the Arts

http://davidgattenfilm.com/
http://www.redcat.org/event/david-gatten