DAVID C MAHLER
  • FILM
    • 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
  • PAINTINGS
    • Cosmic Ocean
    • Falling Vision
    • Misc.
  • COMICS/ILLUSTRATION
  • Studio Rin
  • CV/ABOUT
  • BLOG
  • FILM
    • 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
  • PAINTINGS
    • Cosmic Ocean
    • Falling Vision
    • Misc.
  • COMICS/ILLUSTRATION
  • Studio Rin
  • CV/ABOUT
  • BLOG
David Mahler is a filmmaker and comic artist
​based between Melbourne, Australia and Vancouver, Canada

Education
2012 - 2014 - Bachelor of Film and Television - Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne


​
Solo and group exhibitions

2019
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
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
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
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


Selected Screenings
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
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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



Live Paintings
2019
Mural - Sydney Road Association's 'Art on Windows' '19, Melbourne, Australia

2018
Mural - Legacy Berlin Hall of Fame, Berlin, Germany
Mural - The Black Book Studio, Singapore
Mural - Sydney Road Association's 'Art on Windows' '18, Melbourne, Australia
2017
Live Painting - 'Infinity and Beyond', Railway Hotel, Melbourne, Australia
2016
Live Painting - Droop Fest Footscray, Melbourne, Australia
Live Painting - 'Adrian’s Wall', Sub Club, Melbourne, Australia
Live Painting - Yemaya Music and Culture Festival, rural Victoria, Australia


​
Residencies and Commissions
2018
Artist in Residence at Tree Paper Comics Artist Studio
2017
Selected as one of six artists to participate in the annual Signal Screen Arts Commission, City of Melbourne
2014
Selected as one of ten filmmakers to partake in the ‘Looking Suzhou’ documentary residency in Suzhou, China

David also creates comics - davidcmahlercomics.com
and runs Studio Rin - studiorin.com.au

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

For inquiries please contact davidcmahler at gmail dot com
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  • FILM
    • 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
  • PAINTINGS
    • Cosmic Ocean
    • Falling Vision
    • Misc.
  • COMICS/ILLUSTRATION
  • Studio Rin
  • CV/ABOUT
  • BLOG