Artist Performer Producer
Melbourne 1979,
based in Amsterdam
Emile Zile is engaged with popular screen iconography, hybrid performance and single-channel video. He teaches at the Sandberg Institute Amsterdam, curates the monthly film event Electric Cinema and has recently exhibited at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Paradiso Amsterdam, Today's Art Festival Den Haag, F.E.A.V.S. Osaka and the Rietveld Arsenale 53rd Venice Biennale.
Search keywords: Exorcism, Rhythm, Broadcast, Energy, Trash, Silence, Laugh, Cinema, Hybrid, Pop
M.F.A. Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam 2007-2009
B.F.A. (Honours) R.M.I.T. Media Arts, Melbourne 1999-2001
CV: EZCV-Feb2010.pdf
Mail: studio at emilezile dot com
At eighteen, Emile Zile, who grew up in Melbourne, Australia, had a cathartic experience. He was a member of the studio audience present at the recording of a television quiz, and was asked to participate as a candidate. At that moment, his interest in the quintessence of the television medium was given concrete shape. Everything he did after that was 'life after fame', to put it sarcastically. Emile Zile's performance in that Game Show makes an unforgettable impression, for that matter. You realize at once that in the world of the media he is a phenomenon. His qualities as a performer are obvious and he uses them to great effect. Actually, he is completely impossible in that sense. Seldom has there been seen a tv host more confused by a candidate completely stepping outside himself. - Alex de Vries, Amsterdam 2008