Ep 10: Making dark comedy with Emile Zile

This episode is for deep thinking comedy lovers.

Our guest is Emile Zile, an artist, filmmaker and performer who talks to us about his darkly comic practice – the critical re-use and re-encoding of media broadcasts, communication protocols and online platforms. His work reflects a distributed humanity, a yearning for transcendence and the limits of language.

Building on a background of live and single-channel video, his work uses site-specific performance, portraiture and filmmaking to capture the traces of humanity within an accelerating digital culture.

Emile's influences mentioned in this episode are below:

Andy Kaufman’s tempo – Andy Kaufman on Letterman (October 15th 1980)

Alan Tutorial's voice – My own hand tutorial

Hennessy Youngman's swagger – ART THOUGHTZ: How to Make an Art

Jello Biafra’s gesture – Dead Kennedys - Live in San Francisco, 16-06-1984

Kraftwerk's anti-gesture – Kraftwerk - The Robots (Live, Club Lido, Venice October 1978)