[5][6] Born in the Royal Free hospital in Islington, London, Emit and his sister Bella Basura were moved by their parents to the new town of Welwyn Garden City.

[11] In 2006 he founded the Hamilton Underground Film Festival and created Karen Karnak, an invented multiple-use pseudonym under which multiple filmmakers could participate.

[33] Santa Arson (1995), filmed on super 8mm, was made with Steve Rife, a pyrotechnics artist from Saint Paul, Minnesota.

[34] Between the years 1991 and 2001 Emit Snake-Beings created over 30 coin-operated electrical shrines, reflecting a combination of technology and religious deities within a polytheist system.

"The Shrine to Nikola Tesla", created in 1995, was displayed in the tattooist shop 'Sacred Art'[36] London N16 for several years.