DAVID C MAHLER
  • FILM
    • Cosmic Odyssey
    • Salvation Comes
    • One Day My Waste Will Consume My Home
    • Cosmic Anthology
    • Save Campbell Arcade
    • Ying Li and the Ballet
    • Dig a Little Deeper
    • Splendor Solis
    • Various
  • MUSIC VIDEOS
    • Doug Hoyer - Hive Mind
    • DozyBoy - Welcome Back
    • HOORAtaki - Love Never Gets
    • Charlie Copper and Lords of Lard - I Think I Have Frostbite
    • Francolin - Suddenly Painlessly
    • E*Klipse tha Champloo - I’m Raw
    • Children and Corpse Playing in the Street - Come Home
    • Firefly Effect - All The Jokes Are On Me
  • Comics/Illustration
    • COMICS
      • How Do We Get There?
      • What to do in Tulum
      • Tiergarten
      • The Rustling of Leaves
      • Dance Comic
      • Ingredients
      • We Connected...
      • Ear Comic
      • Experience
      • Perception is a Gift
      • Maypoles
      • We're Not Eating Them
      • How Do You Know?
      • Food Energy
      • Animals
      • Practise
      • Collective Consciousness
      • The Connected World
      • Earth Maps
      • The Echo of...
      • Manga Shrine
      • Paintings
      • Rules
      • Shades of Definition
    • Books
      • Natural Philosopher
      • The Secret Ingredient
      • Junior Catharsis
      • Deep Park
      • Parcel of Spells
    • Illustration
  • CV/ABOUT
  • FILM
    • Cosmic Odyssey
    • Salvation Comes
    • One Day My Waste Will Consume My Home
    • Cosmic Anthology
    • Save Campbell Arcade
    • Ying Li and the Ballet
    • Dig a Little Deeper
    • Splendor Solis
    • Various
  • MUSIC VIDEOS
    • Doug Hoyer - Hive Mind
    • DozyBoy - Welcome Back
    • HOORAtaki - Love Never Gets
    • Charlie Copper and Lords of Lard - I Think I Have Frostbite
    • Francolin - Suddenly Painlessly
    • E*Klipse tha Champloo - I’m Raw
    • Children and Corpse Playing in the Street - Come Home
    • Firefly Effect - All The Jokes Are On Me
  • Comics/Illustration
    • COMICS
      • How Do We Get There?
      • What to do in Tulum
      • Tiergarten
      • The Rustling of Leaves
      • Dance Comic
      • Ingredients
      • We Connected...
      • Ear Comic
      • Experience
      • Perception is a Gift
      • Maypoles
      • We're Not Eating Them
      • How Do You Know?
      • Food Energy
      • Animals
      • Practise
      • Collective Consciousness
      • The Connected World
      • Earth Maps
      • The Echo of...
      • Manga Shrine
      • Paintings
      • Rules
      • Shades of Definition
    • Books
      • Natural Philosopher
      • The Secret Ingredient
      • Junior Catharsis
      • Deep Park
      • Parcel of Spells
    • Illustration
  • CV/ABOUT
Cosmic Odyssey

OFFICIAL SELECTION:
Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival 2022, in competition - NSW, Australia
7th Siding Festival of Film 2022 - BC, Canada
Future Vision Festival 2022/23 - Tokyo, Japan (Dec), Amsterdam, Netherlands (Jan)
​
The glowing Celestial Plankton are drawn to one another across the cosmos, forming funnels of consciousness which fill a newborn’s void. A symphonic art film - the final production in the Cosmic Anthology series of artworks and films (2016-2022) - inspired by equal parts Fantasia and 2001: A Space Odyssey with a foundation in the Buddhist understanding of the six elements, by filmmaker and projection artist David C Mahler.
For more information on Cosmic Anthology please visit the project's page, and the project's vimeo.

Thank you to Kristen, Hac, Chris Webb, Susan and Peter Mahler, and the Myer Foundation.
This film couldn't have been made without the grateful support of a Myer Foundation National Assistance Program for the Arts grant.


Director's statement:

This film is my attempt to visualise the journey of an intangible force. Having grown up in a Buddhist household, the concept of the six elements is something that I have considered for many years. Where does consciousness come from? Does it constantly surround us, is there some place it emerges from? After exploring these questions in more abstract manners in my previous films, projection pieces and painting suite (Cosmic Anthology, 2016-2022) I decided to close off this body of work by utilising a Myer Foundation grant to experiment with practical effects and digital animation.

Taking a cue from the late Douglas Trumbull and his groundbreaking special effects work, I have attempted to reimagine my painting style as moving images by filming coloured oils and liquids interacting in closeup. To help contextualise this concept is the simple narrative of what is essentially a soul, or perhaps the fragments of a soul, journeying across space to inhabit a newborn.

I hope my latest short film inspires a sense of awe and wonder, while simultaneously encouraging viewers to consider their connection to the universe and to one another.

​Copyright 2022
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  • FILM
    • Cosmic Odyssey
    • Salvation Comes
    • One Day My Waste Will Consume My Home
    • Cosmic Anthology
    • Save Campbell Arcade
    • Ying Li and the Ballet
    • Dig a Little Deeper
    • Splendor Solis
    • Various
  • MUSIC VIDEOS
    • Doug Hoyer - Hive Mind
    • DozyBoy - Welcome Back
    • HOORAtaki - Love Never Gets
    • Charlie Copper and Lords of Lard - I Think I Have Frostbite
    • Francolin - Suddenly Painlessly
    • E*Klipse tha Champloo - I’m Raw
    • Children and Corpse Playing in the Street - Come Home
    • Firefly Effect - All The Jokes Are On Me
  • Comics/Illustration
    • COMICS
      • How Do We Get There?
      • What to do in Tulum
      • Tiergarten
      • The Rustling of Leaves
      • Dance Comic
      • Ingredients
      • We Connected...
      • Ear Comic
      • Experience
      • Perception is a Gift
      • Maypoles
      • We're Not Eating Them
      • How Do You Know?
      • Food Energy
      • Animals
      • Practise
      • Collective Consciousness
      • The Connected World
      • Earth Maps
      • The Echo of...
      • Manga Shrine
      • Paintings
      • Rules
      • Shades of Definition
    • Books
      • Natural Philosopher
      • The Secret Ingredient
      • Junior Catharsis
      • Deep Park
      • Parcel of Spells
    • Illustration
  • CV/ABOUT