Emma Piper-Burket is a visual artist, filmmaker, writer, and educator using fiction, non-fiction, and collected media to investigate interactions between nature, society, and the human spirit. Her work is process-based and research driven, incorporating social trends, ancient history, personal experience, science, politics, ephemera, and the natural world. Emma was a 2024 Flaherty Film Seminar Fellow and has received support from Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Ebert Foundation, Sundance Institute, Light Cone, Visual Studies Workshop, Marble House Project, and Middlebury Script Lab, among others for her creative works. She holds an MFA in Cinema and Digital Media from FAMU in Prague, and a BA in Arabic and Classical Studies from Georgetown University. She is currently a PhD Candidate in Critical Media Practice and a 2024-25 recipient of the Center for Humanities & Arts Dissertation Fellowship at The University of Colorado Boulder.