The situations Emmanuelle Antille films come from every day life, from social and family gatherings. The excess with which those films are staged allow her to analyse human behaviour, both alone and in a social context.

Wouldn't it be nice, the video (14') presented in the gallery, relates the personal relationships between members of a family who have gathered for a dinner party in someone's home. At first, these scenes seem ordinary : the distance between the protagonists can been felt by their politeness and kindness, by their 'normal' way of behaving. But these relationships suddenly change into moments of tension, mutual irritations, sudden and exaggerated intimacies, or even agression, in particular when some of the people get isolated. In certain scenes, focused on women characters, the repeated actions are overwhelming and thus become obsessive, absurd to the point that they evoke a rituaL Antille says that she was very interested in showing an intimacy between two people that no one can really name, a relationship beyond cliche because it is not completely dealing with friendship, love, pain, or incest ".

Emmanuelle Antille lives and works in Lausanne. She studied from 1997 to 1998 at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam, where she started showing several video installations. The video installation with the title Training Lounge was shown at the Rijksacademie in1998 and in the show Seamless at the Stichting de Appel in Amsterdam. Her work was also shown in the group show Pulsions in the centre culturel suisse in Paris and in the group show Wouldn't it be nice in the Media Art center Monte Video in Amsterdam which title precisely refers to the piece of Emmanuelle Antille. She currently has a solo show at the Migros Museum (8 April - 4 June 2000) and will exhibit her work this year at the Laurent Delaye Gallery in London.