Ema Blin

Ema Blin — They/Them — is an experimental filmmaker and animator whose work navigates the visceral and disorienting experiences of transsexual bodily transformation. Their practice challenges traditional narratives of identity, gender, and aesthetic perception, often rejecting linear storytelling in favor of raw, destabilizing imagery. Rooted in personal experience, their work explores themes of dysphoria and fragmentation. They gravitate towards analog mediums, under-camera animation, camera-less practices, embracing imperfections and materiality as integral to the themes they investigate. Their practice resists fixed identities and normative beauty standards, instead embracing bodily autonomy through decay, disintegration, and abstraction. By deconstructing familiar forms, they invite engagement with the instability of selfhood, the horror and beauty of transition, and the ways in which the body is both a site of alienation and agency. They are currently pursuing a Master’s in Cinematic Arts at Concordia University, where they continue to develop their exploration of experimental film and animation. Through their work, they aim to disrupt conventional understandings of gendered embodiment and the aesthetics of change, crafting visual and sonic experiences that refuse resolution, instead lingering in the liminal spaces of becoming.