2025
Emile is Missing
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.
Director
Sam Carson
Félix Morreo Zisserman
Runtime
16 Minutes
Country
Australia
Classification
Unclassified 18+
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)
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)
Film Credits
Director
Sam Carson & Félix Morreo Zisserman
Year
2024
Country
Australia
Language
English
Type
Fiction & Short
Program Strand
Shorts
Producer
Sam Carson, Félix Morreo Zisserman & Olive Bilic
Writer
Sam Carson & Félix Morreo Zisserman
Cinematographer
Félix Morreo Zisserman
Editor
Félix Morreo Zisserman
Cast
Sam Carson, Stacey Collee, Verity Higgins, Joshua Draffin & Sophie Bonollo
Film Source
Glass Bricks
Genre
LGBTQIA+, Mystery & Short
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