Emma Piper-Burket

Driving Dinosaurs

An 89 year old marketing gimmick subliminally resurfaces on a lonely road in the American west.

The Man in the Bushes

A filmmaker follows a man as he searches for clues to understand the father he never knew.

Eco: A Feminist Disaster

Deep in the primordial waters of Earth’s history, a creature is born with a will to dominate all, but Mother Nature has other plans. ECO: A FEMINIST DISASTER is an ongoing series of films composted from a subgenre of eco-horror films produced between 1970-1981 serving as a critique of environmental media, a speculative film history, and a personal diary.

Eco: Feminist Disaster

Deep in the primordial waters of Earth’s history a creature is born with a will to dominate all, but Mother Nature has other plans.

(Always) Next To Me

(Always) Next to Me is a 16mm film that pairs abstract sequences of plants developed directly on the film emulsion with intertitles briefly describing what was going on for me personally at the moment the plants were collected. I started the film at the beginning of the pandemic, just after I found out I was pregnant for the first time in April 2020 and finished it just before the birth of my baby in December of the same year.

Giant Eagle, Four Stars

In an abandoned shopping center outside of Cleveland, the story of the last remaining grocery store is told through recent google reviews.

If The Edges Start to Hurt

There is a big tree in Southwestern New Mexico where wild turkeys often roots. The tree is near a house, and at dusk everyone in that house gets very quiet hoping the turkeys won't get scared away and go somewhere else to sleep. As the birds fly up to the highest branches their wings flap, displacing the wind around them. The whole process can last an hour or more. This is a film about staying supple after heartbreak and what happens when it snows in the desert.

The Lilac Game

This film is a celebration of springtime and an interactive game the audience is encouraged to play. Volume one of Films for a Future, a series of handmade and hand processed 16mm nature films, is intended for future viewers living in a time when the natural world no longer exists as it does today.

Dream City

In Iraqi Kurdistan, two friends — Emma, a filmmaker from the US, and Diana, a local aspiring actress — make a movie. When they begin Diana is living on her own in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan's buzzing capital city. She is studying to be a flight attendant and enjoying the freedom of being independent and young in a growing city. When war returns to Iraq with the invasion of ISIS, Diana moves back to her mother's home in Sulaymaniyah. Now her days pass quietly, mostly indoors. In the darkness of frequent power outages, Diana builds a dream city in her mind.

History of Rome

A collaborative film made by participants of Marcus Bergner's Found Footage Module at FAMU International 2013.