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
