Extract from 'A walk through the woods with Zile' article
Cut-Up online journal. Amsterdam, Netherlands 2005.
'The awareness of one’s own death comes before anything else' states Zile. We look out across the city and sink deeper into our jackets. There is a lifeblood that seeps out and passes through his bones, it’s more than guts and blood and grey matter. Zile’s work reflects this – there is well constructed stills and splits of the same blood and bones: teeth and matter. With work that does not simply transcend but also mutates genres of digital media, film and sound Emile Zile is tearing down conventions of new media. Zile’s work is a hybrid of genre, style and technique whereby each individual piece stands alone yet often touches back on common themes underpinned by Zile’s relentless urge to create, to comment on the now. The hybrid serves for a unique take on subjects of the everyday, SMS messaging (5. Txt 2004) or newsreaders (6pm Personality 2001) turning them into complex worlds and intricate landscapes.
Megan Patty

Extract from 'New Artists - New Work' article
Realtime Magazine. Australia 2003.
His video work Larry Emdur’s Suit is a classic. Finding himself a contestant on The Price is Right, Zile successfully guessed the price of the Nursery package and moved up to share the stage with host Larry Emdur. This is where Zile ‘performs’ himself in a bizarre series of hand gestures and contorted postures to which Emdur responds by mirroring. Zile effectively bends the materiality of television to his will, making Emdur follow his dance. It is hilarious and very, very strange.
Linda Wallace

Extract from 'Descore' review
Realtime Onscreen supplement. Australia 2004.
Fuck The Vampires. Gothic Politic. Duck My Punchline. Feasibly zapped from the large nimble SMS thumbs of Emile Zile, straight to the screen, 'Young Adult Thinks' presents a series of witty and emotive narrative fragments, framed by graphics and Zile's near trademark sloganeering. Sound is employed laterally throughout and in an evocative manner by Patrick Donlon ( DJ Spacey Space ) from watery sounds as a girl blows out flames through to cheesy synths that Chaplin woulda loved for the piece's more gameshow moments. Capping it nicely though, is the use of silence and the unrelenting close-up focus on the breath of Old Man Zile ( hello Konstantin ) to create an intensely personal and electric finish.
Jean Poole