Emile Zile

Emile Zile is an Latvian-Australian artist, filmmaker and performer.

Using the mass media as raw material to be consumed, modified and re-transmitted, Zile’s work attempts to locate the poetic in a barrage of pop culture. Embracing broadcast banalities and inhabiting the media to make comment upon it, he has appeared on Australian national television to up-stage a gameshow host, exhibited photographic portraits of Jerry Springer Show audience members and produced live video for a hybrid performance in Guangzhou, China; appropriating 15th century Chinese erotic illustration, ‘Apocalypse Now’ and American death metal.

He lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.