Emile is Missing

Emile is Missing

Fri
17
Fri 17 Oct 8:45 PM

Palace Nova Eastend: Cinema 4
General Admission
Unclassified 18+
16 Mins
October
Fri 17 Oct

In the style of an investigative documentary, Emile Is Missing follows trans filmmaker Isobel as she pieces together interviews, webcam footage, security tapes and her own growing suspicions to solve the disappearance of her missing girlfriend Emile.

Deep in her digital shadows, Isobel discovers EmileCam; a camsite populated by obsessive fans who had been spying on Emile through her webcam. Are they responsible for her disappearance? Or is it the CCTV cameras which would mysteriously film Emile everywhere she went. Or, as Emile’s own mother suggests, did she disappear under her own volition? As a desperate Isobel reviews her documentary footage, we bear witness to a violent digital collage of what it means to be under surveillance. It is there in the fragmented digital memories of her lost love that Isobel discovers that Emile has been here all along, waiting for her on the other side of the screen.

Screening with Queer shorts:
The Fling (Jemma Cotter)
Boyish (Scarlett Scherer)
Crabs in the Air (Esteban Guerrero Carranco)
Ladies Night (Lucy Bubalo & Shayla Nguyen)
Automagic (Ashok Vish)
The Eating of an Orange (May Kindred-Boothby)