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David Black
nickname Darvis
b. June 29, 1964, Adelaide, Australia.

BIOGRAPHY:   David Black grew up in Melbourne and lives in Melbourne. He is an actor, writer, producer and director in films.  He started off his creative endeavours as a cartoonist by publishing his first underground comic, “Gooby” at the age of 17.  As a cartoonist, he had a cartoon strip, “Punkz”, run in the national rock weekly magazine “Juke” in 1988 and worked as the editorial cartoonist for the national tabloid “The Truth” in 1989 and 1990.  He published a comic book “Punkz In Space” in 1993.

 


David is also a writer of short stories and his series “Obsessions of a Shattered Psyche” were published in Dark Angel Magazine in the 1990s.  He has made 3 of those short stories into short films.  His writing has also extended to covering the Australian Indie Movie industry in The Movie Blog and Oz Indie Cinema.  He currently writes for The Australian Short Film Network Journal.

David is also a bass player, singer and songwriter.  He played in the theatrical gothic rock band, “Darkness Visible”, which gigged across Melbourne from 1994.  He has recorded 10 songs in the studio.  It was the band that segued him into film making when he started making music videos.   Between 2009 – 2017, he produced 10 music videos.


CRITICAL OVERVIEW:   David Black is an all-rounder when it comes to creative pursuits and this has helped his filmmaking immensely. He is involved in every aspect of the process from writing, prop making, costuming, through to editing and even marketing.  He works with quite a variety of people and allows them as much creative freedom as possible, while overseeing each film from beginning to end.  David has become best known for horror and schlock films, however most have a spiritual and psychological sub narrative, and can often be seen as a commentary on the modern world.

 


FILMOGRAPHY:

Music Videos

 

 
 
David Black playing bass with Darkness Visible
November 13, 2009

Darkness Visible - Flesh (2008, 4:42)

Footage from a live gig at The Central Club with the 2008 recording

Executive producer, producer, song writer, bass player

 

Darkness Visible - I, Nehemia (2009, 3:53)

Executive producer, producer, director, song writer, bass player

 

Darkness Visible - Darkness Visible (2010, 3:15)

Executive producer, producer, director, song writer, bass player

 

Darkness Visible - Monster Mash (2012, 5:20)

Live recording from Halloween 1996 gig

Executive producer, producer, bass player, vocals, editor

 

Darkness Visible - Flesh (2012, 4:27)

2012 recording, different line up to the 2008 version.

Executive producer, producer, director, song writer, bass player, backing vocals

 

Darkness Visible - Inquisition (2013, 5:17)

Executive producer, producer, director, song writer, bass player, vocals

 

Darkness Visible - Truth Hurts Short Version (2014, 3:51)

Executive producer, producer, director, song writer, bass player, vocals

 

Darkness Visible - Truth Hurts Long Version (2015, 7:00)

Executive producer, producer, director, song writer, bass player, vocals

 

Darkness Visible - Eat Me (2016, 4:57)

Executive producer, producer, director, song writer, bass player, vocals

 

Darkness Visible - Breaking Point (2017, 6:04)

Executive producer, producer, director, song writer, bass player, vocals

 

 

 


Films

 

 
 
Malevolent Pursuit

Dark Night of the Zomboogies (2017, 3:04)

Executive producer, producer, co-director, bar patron

 

Gruesome Discoveries (2018, 3:04)

Executive producer, producer, director, writer, phone footage, co-star as David

 

Cannibal Barbecue (2018, 8:34)

Executive producer, producer, director, writer, barbecuer

 

Obsessions of a Shattered Psyche - Sepulchral Revelations (2018, 6:53)

Executive producer, producer, director, writer, narrator

 

Support Local Talent! David Black chats about the Aussie Indie Movie Industry (2018, 13:44)

documentary and comedy stand up routine

Executive producer, producer, director, writer, appears as himself

 

 
 
Parental Duties

Iniquitous Interrogation (2018, 5:44)

Executive producer, producer, co-writer, plays the victim of a psycho interrogator

 

CampWhereDaHeckAreWe (2018, 4:32)

Executive producer, producer, writer, plays scout master Ned Belly

 

Obsessions of a Shattered Psyche - Buried Alive (2018, 8:21)

Executive producer, producer, directorm writer, narrator

 

Malevolent Pursuit (2018, 6:45)

Executive producer, producer, narrator, plays the psycho stalker

 

 
 

CATch 22 (2018, 2:10)

Executive producer, producer, co-director, writer, plays the male cat

 

Dark Metamorphosis (2018, 1:12)

Executive producer, producer, writer, narrator, plays Lucifer

 

A Message From God (2018, 5:50)

Executive producer, producer, director, writer, plays Waldo

 

The Road to Hell is Still Undefined (2018, 7:29)

Executive producer, producer, writer, plays the preacher

 

Darkness Breaking - episode 1 (2018, 13:48)

interviews with some of the talent from the Breaking Point

music video - featuring Baroness Mischa & Lady Q

Executive producer, producer

 

Darkness Breaking - episode 2 (2018, 16:16)

interviews with some of the talent from the Breaking Point

music video - featuring Zia Electric and Ferri Maya

Executive producer, producer

 

Parental Duties (2018, 16:29)

Executive producer, producer, writer, narrator, plays post apocalyptic survivor "David"

 

The Making of the Badass Bunyip monster (2019, 4:44)

featurette showing how the Bunyip monster was made in the upcoming feature films "Badass Bunyip"

Executive producer, producer and Bunyip

 

 
 
One Drink Too Many

Life, Love and Death (2019, 5:25)

Executive producer, producer, writer, plays "the John" and does the voices and animating of the inanimate objects

 

Sex Robot (2019, 4:10)

Executive producer, producer, Director, writer, plays "David Black"

 

Spinning A Yarn (2019, 4:22)
Executive producer, producer, writer, plays "Oscar the spider"

 

Precinct 13 Has Fallen (2019, 3:52)

Executive producer, producer, writer, plays "PC Kalugin"

 

Lethal Legacy (2019, 17:04)

Executive producer, producer, writer, plays "Darvid Black"

 

Soul Food (2019, 9:35)

Executive producer, producer, writer, plays "David Black"

 

Obsessions of a Shattered Psyche - Death (2019, 12:28)

Executive producer, producer, writer, narrator

 

 
 
David Black as Count Funghoula

A Night at the Movies .... Indie Style (2019, 24:40)

Documentary on the local indie movie industry

Executive producer, co-producer, concept - appears as himself

 

One Drink Too Many (2019, 5:20)

Executive producer, producer, writer - plays the bartender

 

Regression Transgression (2019, 11:13)

Executive producer, producer, writer - plays "David Black, the patient"

 

TV Series - Horror House (2019, 6 episodes, each roughly 25 mins)

Hosted Horror TV show featuring short horror movies made by Australian filmmakers

Executive producer, producer, writer, horror host - Count Funghoula

 

DERROliction Of Duty (2020, 6:59)

Executive producer, producer, writer - plays a homeless man

 

Hamlet For The Fireys (2020, 7:25)

Executive producer, producer, director, put the section of Hamlet into plain English.

Appears only as an extra

 

 

In production - Badass Bunyip (2020, feature film)

Executive producer, producer, writer, stars as "Dazza"

 




 


SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY:

What I Did / What I Do by David Black, May 13, 2018.

Interview with David Black by Michael Ford, Indie Activity.

Interview with the provocative David Black by Nevermore-Horror, 2019.

"Extras sought for zombie apocalypse" by Esther Lauaki, Star Weekly, June 14, 2016.


© David Black, March 2020.

David Black's YouTube channel

David Black on MyIndie

Contact David Black

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