Em Rose Hamilton (she/they) is a Paris-based transdisciplinary artist and creative producer exploring experiential narratives under the alias stare at the wall. Over the last eight years, they have collaborated with leading studios such as DVgroup (FR), Megaverse (UK), Marshmallow Laser Feast (UK) and Nilor Studio (UK). Recent productions include; tAxI (Festival de Cannes 2025), Sweet Dreams (Manchester’s Factory International 2024), Works of Nature (ACMI, Melbourne 2024) and Evolver (Festival de Cannes 2024, Tribeca Film Festival 2022, GIFF 2022).
Originally from Manchester, Em graduated in 2016 from Middlesex University London, where they specialised in directing for film and virtual reality. They began their career by creating 360° experiences for sustainable fashion brands, and working as an assistant for established fashion production houses (North6, Rosco).
Since arriving in Paris in 2017, they have worked with VR filmmaker Mathieu Pradat as assistant director and producer on the live XR theatre piece The Roaming - Wetlands (VRHAM! 2018 / Venice International Film Festival 75) before joining immersive entertainment pioneers DVgroup in 2018. As a creative producer of original content, Emma worked directly with DV's most ambitious narrative pieces (Alice, The Virtual Reality Play, The Horrifically Real Virtuality), with a focus in Immersive XR Theatre and live motion capture performances.
From 2021 to 2024, Em has worked on groundbreaking immersive projects as a producer and assistant director at Marshmallow Laser Feast, while in parallel growing their independent creative alias stare at the wall through collaborations with Nilor Studio, Megaverse, and the National Youth Theatre (UK).
They were artist-in-residence at the Gaîté Lyrique in Paris for a year, and their produced works have been distributed by partners including ACMI (Melbourne), the Science Museum Group (UK), Manchester International Festival (UK), Wave Museum Seoul (ROK), Somerset House (UK), and Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam (NL), among others.
In addition, Em is regularly invited to participate in festival panels (Goeland Beach Cannes 2025, the BFI Film Pavilion Cannes 2024) and guest talks (Middlesex University, The V&A Museum). They also mentor aspiring creatives, often from marginalised and working class communities (B3 Media XR Talent Lab, SODA Manchester).
In 2025, moving beyond their established work as an assistant director for other artists, they have returned to directing their own experiential artworks, while continuing to produce in a freelance capacity. This shift opened space to explore themes of personal significance. In March, they received a CNC création immersive writing grant for their project Reframing Queer Exile — a series of experiential audiovisual portrait installations centring the voices of LGBTQ refugees, which was followed in June by a development grant from the Ville de Paris.
In collaboration with multidisciplinary artists Tasha Hubbard and Jason Ryle, Em is also co-directing an immersive land-based installation entitled WAVES OF BUFFALO (part of MIT’s worlding cohort 2025). WAVES OF BUFFALO is a site-specific installation currently in development, that would seek to recreate the experience of bearing witness to a Great Herd of Buffalo passing by in the Great Plains of North America.
Beyond their artistic practice, Em dedicates time to volunteering with Melting Point LGBT, a non profit association and solidarity network that supports LGBTQ+ asylum seekers in France.
If you’re working on a project that could use creative or production support, or would like more information about any existing work, please reach out at stareatthewallstudio@gmail.com.