High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! David Edward Gatten is an American experimental filmmaker and moving image artist. Since 1996 Gatten`s films have explored the intersection of the printed word and moving image, cataloging the variety of ways in which texts functions in cinema as both language and image, writing and drawing, often blurring the boundary between these categories. His films often employee cameraless techniques, combined with close-up cinematography and optical printing processes.