Emile Is Missing
A year after Emile suddenly vanished from her apartment, her girlfriend, trans filmmaker Isobel, embarks on a desperate attempt to find her.
Isobel’s investigation leads her to a series of characters, each of whom holds their own theory regarding Emile’s fate: an online voyeur obsessed with archiving her every move; a CCTV consultant who sees her as a glitch in the system; and Emile’s mother, who hints at a history of disappearances.
Unclassified 15+
Warning: Contains mature themes and coarse language
Course: BFA FTV Honours
Director Biography
Sam (she/her) is a trans filmmaker whose practice focuses on radical communities and queer thought. In her work, she strives to antithesize cis-hetero experiences, at once aiming for engagement with and distance from hegemonic boundaries. Sam is currently writing her Honours thesis on trans-authored filmmaking and is in pre-production on her first feature film, Teenage Wildlife. Recent works include Emile is Missing (2024) a short narrative film about surveillance and trans disappearances, Body Cosmos (2024), an exploration of the body under surveillance through AI imagery and The Last Cinema (2022), a short narrative film about a dilapidated moviehouse and its clerks (winner: Best Experimental Short, Sydney Short Film Festival, 2024).