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Ephraim Asili is an African American multidisciplinary artist and educator whose work focuses on the African diaspora as a cultural force. Often inspired by his quotidian wanderings, Asili creates films, books, cassettes, records, collage, and installation works that situate themselves as a series of meditations on the everyday in relation to ...
Ephraim Asili is an African American multidisciplinary artist and educator whose practice centers the African diaspora as a cultural force. Often inspired by his quotidian wanderings, Asili creates art that situates itself as a series of meditations on the everyday.
Ephraim Asili is an African American artist, filmmaker, writer, DJ, and traveler whose work focuses on the African diaspora as a cultural force. His childhood and adolescence were imbued with hip-hop music, Hollywood movies, and television.
Aug 30, 2021 · The film examines the responsibilities and struggles of communal life, exploring the generational legacies of Black activism and radical thought by drawing on Asili’s own years living with a Black Marxist collective in West Philadelphia.
Mar 12, 2021 · Director Ephraim Asili's "The Inheritance" blends documentary, fictive narrative, and cultural archaeology to portray the life of a Black commune in West Philadelphia.
- Sarah-Tai Black
Ephraim Asili. Fellow: Awarded 2021. Field of Study: Competition: US & Canada. Ephraim Asili is a filmmaker, artist, educator and DJ whose work focuses on the African diaspora as a cultural force.
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After nearly a decade exploring different facets of the African diaspora — and his own place within it — Ephraim Asili makes his feature-length debut with The Inheritance, an astonishing ensemble work set almost entirely within a West Philadelphia house where a community of young, Black artists and activists form a collective.
