
Person
Ephraim Asili
Directing · Born 1979-01-01 · Roslyn, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography
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

Isis & Osiris
Director

The Inheritance
Producer

Fluid Frontiers
Original Music Composer
Movie Tote
Director

Kindah
Producer

Points on a Space Age
Director

Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder
2017

Forged Ways
Camera Operator

Sketches and Portraits for Jean-Michel
Director

Calder for Peter
Director
Filmography
- 2025Isis & OsirisDirector
- 2020The InheritanceProducer
- 2018American HungerWriter
- 2018Fluid FrontiersOriginal Music Composer
- 2018Sketches and Portraits for Jean-MichelDirector
- 2017Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder
- 2017Calder for PeterDirector
- 2016KindahProducer
- 2015Many Thousands GoneDirector
- 2011Forged WaysCamera Operator
- 2009Points on a Space AgeDirector
- —Movie ToteDirector
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