About

Known credits:
20
Birthday:
1979-01-01
Place of birth:
Roslyn, Pennsylvania, USA
Website:
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Ephraim Asili

Overview

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.

Known for

Acting
2017 Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder Actor N/A
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Directing
2020 The Inheritance Directing Director N/A
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2018 Fluid Frontiers Directing Director 59
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2018 Sketches and Portraits for Jean-Michel Directing Director N/A
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2017 Calder for Peter Directing Director N/A
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2016 Kindah Directing Director 59
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2015 Many Thousands Gone Directing Director 58
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2013 American Hunger Directing Director 59
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2011 Forged Ways Directing Director N/A
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2009 Points on a Space Age Directing Director N/A
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Movie Tote Directing Director N/A
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Writing
2020 The Inheritance Writing Writer N/A
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2013 American Hunger Writing Writer 59
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Production
2020 The Inheritance Production Producer N/A
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2016 Kindah Production Producer 59
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2013 American Hunger Production Producer 59
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Sound
2018 Fluid Frontiers Sound Original Music Composer 59
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Camera
2018 Fluid Frontiers Camera Camera Operator 59
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2011 Forged Ways Camera Camera Operator N/A
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Editing
2018 Fluid Frontiers Editing Editor 59
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