Image from David Gatten’s “The Extravagant Shadows”
The Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York is presenting a special reprise screening of filmmaker David Gatten’s The Extravagant Shadows. Fourteen years in the making, the Duke film instructor’s first digital feature—shot with a Nikon DSLR—premiered at the 50th New York Film Festival last fall to great acclaim, screening in the festival’s Views from the Avant-Garde program. The Extravagant Shadows was ranked ninth in the Film Comment‘s critics poll of the “50 Best Undistributed Films of 2012.”
Reprise Screening of The Extravagant Shadows
Monday, April 29, 7 p.m.
Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, Francesca Beale Theater
144 West 65th Street, New York City
Gatten describes the three-hour work as, “A love story in shifting colors, illusive light, and sentimental songs from the year 1968. A movie about the movement of desire across the distances of geography and time. A meditation on the manner in which books, letters, and other written or printed communications might both produce and mediate that distance.” Film critics have described The Extravagant Shadows as “nothing short of stunning,” “a revolution unto itself,” “humanly essential, adventurous, and necessary.”
The press has been paying close attention to Gatten and his latest work, with recent stories in Film Comment, Art Forum, and an upcoming feature in Filmmaker Magazine that will focus on his two-course sequence at Duke’s Program in Arts of the Moving Image—Intro to Arts of the Moving Image: Better Living Through Cinema and Matters of Life and Death.
