Filmmaker David Gatten at The Velaslavasay Panorama This Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012

SECRET HISTORY OF THE DIVIDING LINE

A TRUE ACCOUNT IN NINE PARTS: PARTS I - IV

Filmmaker David Gatten at The Velaslavasay Panorama
Jointly presented with The Museum of Jurassic Technology

Saturday October 27, 2012
8 o'clock pm
Tickets $10 general
$8 MJT & VPES members
www.brownpapertickets.com/event/277920  

Please join us in welcoming David Gatten for the first of three screenings in the series
Texts of Light: A Mid-Career Retrospective of Fourteen Films by David Gatten, in Three Programs

David Gatten’s films generate tactile compositions and draw novel conclusions from 19th-century scientific treatises, “outdated” 20th-century instructional texts, and rare books from 17th- and 18th-century personal libraries. Gatten, a leading figure dedicated to mining 16mm film’s continuing expressive possibilities in the digital era, was recently included in Cinemascope’s “Best Fifty Filmmakers Under Fifty.” – REDCAT

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Program I - Secret History of the Dividing Line,
A True Account in Nine Parts: Parts I-IV

Secret History of the Dividing Line (2002) 20 mins., black and white, silent

The Great Art of Knowing (2004) 37 mins., black and white, silent

Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises, or The Doctrine of Handy-Words Applied to the Art of Printing (1999)
26 mins. [18 fps], black and white, silent

The Enjoyment of Reading (Lost and Found) (2001) 18 mins. [18 fps], color, silent
Film projection by Mark Toscano

Part II of this extraordinary retrospective will take place at Filmforum on Saturday, Oct. 28,
and REDCAT hosts Part III on Monday, Oct. 29.

Organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts / Chris Stults, Associate Curator of Film