Bio

Emile Zile is an artist, filmmaker and performer.

Emile Zile’s multifaceted practice examines the effects of the mediation of experience through communications technology.

Building on a background of live and single-channel video, his work utilises site-specific performance, portraiture and filmmaking to capture the traces of humanity inscribed on the remnants of a digital culture.

Search: ‘cinema’, ‘gesture’, ‘internet’, ‘translation’, ‘euphoria’, ‘exorcism’, ‘audio-vision’, ‘preset’, ‘over-identification’.

Emile received a BFA degree from RMIT Media Arts Melbourne before relocating to Amsterdam in 2007 to commence a MFA degree at the Sandberg Institute. In 2012 he began a two year studio residency at the Rjksakademie van beldeende kunsten, Amsterdam. Recent exhibitions, screenings and performances include National Gallery of Victoria Australia, ICA London, Fargfabriken Stockholm, MCA Sydney, Rojo Nova Sao Paulo Brazil, International Film Festival Rotterdam.

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Writing sabbatical.

New films, new words.