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
David C Mahler is a filmmaker and comic artist
​based in the Netherlands


Education
2022 - 2023 - Master of Animation, AKV|St. Joost, Master Institute of Visual Culture, Avans University of Applied Sciences
2012 - 2014 - Bachelor of Film and Television - Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne


Selected Screenings
2022
Cosmic Odyssey - official selection, 7th Siding Festival of Film, BC, Canada
Cosmic Odyssey - in competition, Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival, NSW, Australia
2020
​Splendor Solis REDUX - official selection, Esoteric Festival Bush Cinema, Victoria, Australia
2019

​Salvation Comes - official selection, Asia Web Awards; nominated best screenplay action & horror, best creator action & horror, best director action & horror, best actress action & horror (Francesca Waters), best horror & experimental
Salvation Comes - official selection, Berlin Underground Film Festival
Salvation Comes - official selection, New Jersey WebFest; nominated best ensemble cast
One Day My Waste Will Consume My Home - official selection, Mirror Mountain Film Festival, Ottawa, Canada; nominated best screenplay
​
Salvation Comes - official selection, Seoul WebFest; WINNER best horror, nominated best supporting actress (Francesca Waters), best supporting actor (Lee Mason)
Salvation Comes - official selection, Sicily WebFest
Salvation Comes - official selection, Web Series Festival Global

Salvation Comes - official selection, Côte d'Azur WebFest
Salvation Comes - official selection, Apulia WebFest
Salvation Comes - finalist, Rome Independent Prisma Awards

2018
One Day My Waste Will Consume My Home - Finalist, NCCC Film and Animation Festival, Sanborn, NY, USA
One Day My Waste Will Consume My Home - Semi-Finalist, Los Angeles CineFest, Los Angeles, USA
One Day My Waste Will Consume My Home - official selection, Animation Marathon, Athens, Greece ​
One Day My Waste Will Consume My Home - official selection, South Texas Underground Film Festival, Texas, USA ​
One Day My Waste Will Consume My Home - official selection, Retransmisión Film Festival, Mexico ​
One Day My Waste Will Consume My Home - official selection, Watford Short Film Festival, Hertfordshire, UK
One Day My Waste Will Consume My Home - official selection, Unknown Film Festival, Yekaterinberg, Russia
One Day My Waste Will Consume My Home - official selection, Diversions International Short Film Festival, Sveti Ivan Zelina, Croatia

2016
Climax - official selection, Mirror Mountain Film Festival, Ottawa, Canada

​2015
Dig A Little Deeper - official selection, Chinese American Film Festival, Los Angeles, USA
Splendor Solis - official selection, Mirror Mountain Film Festival, Ottawa, Canada
Splendor Solis - official selection, Unreal Film Festical, Tennessee, USA
Splendor Solis - shortlisted for Best Young Filmmaker, Carona Fastnet Short Film Festival, Schull, Ireland



Solo and group exhibitions

2021
Mural - Completed two murals for Sydney Road Association's 'Festive Art on Windows' '21, Melbourne, Australia
2020
Mural - Sydney Road Association's 'Art on Windows' '20, Melbourne, Australia
2019
Mural - Sydney Road Association's 'Art on Windows' '19, Melbourne, Australia
Cosmic Waves I - Adelaide Festival Centre; public projection, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Cosmic Echo - Digital Graffiti 2019; public projection, Alys Beach, Florida
Cosmic Echo - Adelaide Festival Centre; public projection, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Cosmic Echo, Cosmic Waves I-III - Moonlight Bush Cinema, Esoteric Festival; art film and projection art screening, VIC, Australia
Portrait of Hans - Adelaide Festival Centre; public projection, Adelaide, SA, Australia
2018
Mural - Sydney Road Association's 'Art on Windows' '18, Melbourne, Australia
Mural - Legacy Berlin Hall of Fame, Berlin, Germany
Mural - The Black Book Studio, Singapore
Expression; Repression - Beyond the Rainbow: Pride Art 2018; two paintings in group exhibition of LGBT+ artists curated by Jimmy Twin, presented by Clifford Chance and J. P. Morgan, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Desert Painting Drum - One Night Only Video Art Project, BlackCat Gallery; projection installation in group exhibition, curated by Pimpisa Tinpalit, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
m4m - 20 YO Fit Caucasian - seeking reward - Men on Men at The Laird; painting in group exhibition of art by queer artists, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Flinders St; Manhole, Collins Street; Hamer Hall - Connections: Stories of the Melbourne Landscape; three paintings in group exhibition curated by Manda Jean and Samuel Emery, Tree Paper, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Cosmic Ocean - solo painting and projection art exhibition, BlackCat Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
The Secret Ingredient - Tree Paper Opening Exhibition; risograph print in group exhibition curated by Samuel Emery, Tree Paper, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2017
Selected as one of six artists to participate in the annual Signal Screen Arts Commission, City of Melbourne
Cosmic Echo - Signal Arts Space; site specific four-channel public projection - part of the Signal Screen Arts Commission 2017, Melbourne, VIC Australia
Cosmic Waves - Gertrude Street Projection Festival ‘ArtBox Video Jam’; projection installation in group exhibition, curated by Tim Dolan, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Live Painting - 'Infinity and Beyond', Railway Hotel, Melbourne, Australia
Panorama 2 - Reality - Kyoto, 2016 (Japan, Switzerland, Morocco, China, Australia) - North Carlton Canteen; experimental film screening, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2015
Spaces_Places - Travel Sketches by David C Mahler 2008-2015 - Brunswick Art Space; solo drawing exhibition, Melbourne, VIC, Australia


Published works include The Secret Ingredient, Deep Park and Junior Catharsis, through ​Pikitia Press and Tree Paper Comics

Buy comics and prints here

For inquiries please contact davidcmahler at gmail dot com
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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