About

Emma is an Australian filmmaker and multi-media artist based between Colombia and London. She studied under acclaimed Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr at his film.factory in Sarajevo where she received her MFA in filmmaking. Her debut feature-length film, PAPAGAJKA (The Parrot) had its World Premiere at the South by Southwest [SXSW] Film Festival and the Sarajevo Film Festival. Her second feature film, EL VAQUERO, premiered at Festival Internacional de Cine de Cartagena de Indias (FICCI) & Mostra Internacional de Cinema São Paulo in 2024. Emma is an alumnus of the Torino Film Lab, Berlinale Talents, the Berlinale Short Film Station and the Reykjavík Talent Lab.

I explore the ephemeral side of human nature – the emotion, creation and destruction.

As a filmmaker and video artist, my work is constructed around existential discussions on psychology and human folly. A strong sense of aesthetic stylization frames my ideas. I create symbolic puzzles. My desire is to disrupt viewer expectations of genre or structure. Playful undertones of absurdism within my work reveals my love for lateral thinking and a strength of imagination. My narrative film work tends towards character-based journeys. Fascinated by moral ambiguity and heightened-realism, my practice usually delves into these realms – creating worlds that symbolically externalize the inner-psychology of character.