tired of the mirrors, noise and eyes.

tired of prickly, intimate and fleshy human relationships being flattened into ‘friend’-nodes, the erasure of myth by constant visibility and exhausting availability.

what kind of network society do i want to support? a closed compound of willingly data-mined crayons or an open net of chance and unpredictability?

if facebook is the brightly-lit suburban mall of internet communication, i want to be under the bridges; in the torrent-swapping irc channels, small social networks, anonymous message boards and darker locations thriving with their own individual languages and codes.

tired of feeling exposed, of being infantilised, of being farmed.

the incessant ‘now’ of FB started to infect my creative process; making for ‘blip’ attention spans and the enormous appetite of the beast, as Geert Lovink puts it ‘feeding a machine’. I want to think in longer time frames to make deeper work.

tired of feelings of interpassivity and the formless mild angst it instills in me; spectacle 2.0 and the build-your-own-ego-ghetto.

hello friends, goodbye facebook.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=eZmGXEA6xNA

31/12/10 – 01/01/11 Amsterdam
‘Romance of Black Grief’
NAKED GIZA STAR
Les Rallizes Dénudés

camera and cut by emile zile

Revulsion in every direction. A burning black hole of explosive anger – given a physical shape by a body trapped in circumstance. A body that is barely able to contain it’s energy.

2dollar shop Australiana decaying on the bonnet of a burning police car. The Museum is a carrier of the violence of incarceration; ethnic typecasting; the leisure classes.

“Too ethnic for SBS” – Too angry for reality television, too real for silence, too alive to die. A bastard son mongrel dog of a prick, primed to kick back at the forces which try to contain it.

A post-colonial audiovisual essayist, using as his tools cheap midi controllers, usb devices and undiluted aggression exorcised from the depths of an amnesiac Australian culture.

http://www.clickjaw.com

https://vimeo.com/11747138

Arthritic After Effects. Cinema 4D in flesh. Flexible 3D modelling.

Showing at Diane Tanzer Gallery + Projects Melbourne, April 2-23 2011

https://emilezile.com/video/five-production-company-logos-in-3d

EMILE ZILE ARTIST TALK AT FAVSC, SEP 23 FOOTSCRAY ARTS

LIVE A/V YOUTUBE ESSAY PERFORMANCE SEP 22 AT STUTTER

DJ BUSHDOOF SEP 17 AT OPENING OF NEW GALLERY PARADISE HILLS

Bushdoof representing for ‘SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE STATE OF MIND’.

Full event data available at http://www.bushdoof.eu/?p=19

4 July DE SERVICE GARAGE CLOSING, ROOFTOP PARTY w/ Baba Electronica, DJ Amaral, DJ Lonely.

11 July GERRIT RIETVELD AKADEMIE GRADUATION CEREMONY

Saturday 24 July + Saturday 31 July ROOF TERRACE OF KRAAIENNEST PARKING GARAGE, BIJLMER w/ Baba Electronica, DJ Amaral, DJ Lonely

BUSH “BUSHMAN COMETH” DOOF this Saturday night (00:00-02:00) in Amsterdam.

Last ever party in the current location of the Service Garage.

http://www.deservicegarage.nl

http://www.bushdoof.eu

REVISIT EXQUISIT
Duo-tentoonstelling Kaleb de Groot & Roosje Klap
(laatste tentoonstelling op de huidige locatie van de Service Garage)

Opening: zaterdag 29 mei, 20:00 uur Muziek: Nathalie Bruys & Emile Zile
Geopend: 29 mei t/m 20 juni, woensdag t/m zondag 12:00-18:00
Finissage: zondag 20 juni

I finished post-production on this video just as the Melbourne band embark on a string of dates in the U.S.A, including shows at SXSW. Try to see them if you are in that neck of the woods. They will be touring with the equally awesome Beaches.

An occular assault edit of no-input analog video effects, courtesy of an old panasonic a/v mixer. Triangles, hexagons courtesy of final cut pro. My extended attention span courtesy of espresso and licorice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3sSK88YRGU

Vimeo alternative http://vimeo.com/9934856

(but it looks so much more electrifying on a bright tube monitor)

Official clip for ‘Forever’ by Love Of Diagrams taken from the album Nowhere Forever
Unstable Ape Records, Melbourne
dir. Emile Zile 2010

http://www.loveofdiagrams.com

https://emilezile.com

Dafna Maimon’s take on arts industry workers, recent art school graduates, art guards and the dreams and fears of the people at the frontline of cultural institutions. The protagonists use black parcan theatre lights on mic stands to frame their monologues. A white light too strong. Lights. Camera. Action.The repetitious scenes were almost nausea inducing in their hammy under/overacted delivery. Exquisitely bland dialogue, sometimes directed to audience members or the unwitting gallery visitor who becomes part of the narrative. Tiny, intoxicating scenes that would be repeated over the course of an hour.

Inane moving of lights. Incessant moving of the framing devices. The power a directed light has to focus energy and create an immediate stage is profound. The spotlight gives license to the characters to deliver lines in much the same way that social networking platforms or micro-blogging services gives licence to transmit little traumas, everyday desires and narcissistic impulses. These individuals prepare their monologues for the amorphous mass, one liners that are both media-conscious and personal. They recite language to the ether, not a directed conversational language, but a never-ending stream of quotes, self-critical comments and weak commands. The dialogue of mediated individualism. I felt we were trapped in the lucid daydreaming IM chats of bored gallery sitters and wannabe curators.

Melodramatic pauses and romantic dialogue interspersed with asides to the audience “If this was a film I would be shot over the shoulder in medium close-up”. Characters moving in highly artificial arcs. The pacing is drawn out and gives ample room for slippage, coincidences and accidents. A character sighs and delivers a highly breathy and despairing “Help. The website is stuck again”. This is anti-depressant operatic tragedy set to the scale of 21st century comment culture.

09/01/10. W139, Warmoesstraat 139, Amsterdam

Directed by Dafna Maimon

Performers: Anu Vahtra, Lot Meijers, Steven de Jong, Timothy Moore

http://www.dafnamaimon.com
http://www.w139.nl

Mock up on Mu
dir. Craig Baldwin (USA, 2009, 110 min)
Première: 3 December, 22:00 hrs Smart Project Space

A new movie by Craig Baldwin, straight out of the Other Cinema compound in San Francisco. The latest in his canon that includes Tribulation 99, Sonic Outlaws and Spectres of the Spectrum, all intoxicating feature-length films that use pre-exisitng media. Screening this Thursday night in Amsterdam.

Mock up on Mu dir. Craig Baldwin (USA, 2009, 110 min) Première: 3 December, 22:00 hrs. Smart Project Space Amsterdam

A radical hybrid of spy, sci-fi, Western, and even horror genres, Craig Baldwin’s Mock Up On Mu cobbles together a feature-length ‘collage-narrative’ based on (mostly) true stories of California’s post-War sub-cultures of rocket pioneers, alternative religions and Beat lifestyles that creates an alternative American history.

‘..an often hilarious, sometimes inscrutable, always original film that’s part pop-cultural fantasia, part capitalist critique’ – New York Magazine