Ephraim Asili
Ephraim Asili is an African-American artist, filmmaker, deejay, and traveler whose work focuses on the African diaspora as a cultural force. He studied at Temple University and received his MFA in film and video arts from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. He has had screenings and exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, Black Star Film Festival, Flaherty Film Seminar, Ann Arbor, Rotterdam, Milan and New Orleans Film Festivals, NY Film-Makers’ Cooperative, Whitney Museum of American Art, amongst many others. Asili was a 2016 Mobile Frames Filmmaker in Residence, and a Media City Film Festival Grand Prize Winner (2017). His recent feature The Inheritance premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and New York Film Festival in 2020. Writing about his work has recently appeared in Hyperallergic, Vogue, USA Today, Artforum, etc. He is a professor in Film and Electronic Arts at Bard College, and lives in Hudson, New York.
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DirectingBirthday
January 1, 1979Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
11Place of birth
Roslyn, Pennsylvania, USACast credits
Crew credits
The Inheritance
Producer, Director, WriterFluid Frontiers
Original Music Composer, Camera Operator, Director, EditorForged Ways
Camera Operator, DirectorMany Thousands Gone
DirectorAmerican Hunger
Producer, Director, WriterKindah
Director, ProducerCalder for Peter
DirectorSketches and Portraits for Jean-Michel
DirectorPoints on a Space Age
Director