Ephraim Asili
Directing
- Born
- January 1, 1979 (age 47) · Roslyn, Pennsylvania, USA
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
Kindah
October 1, 2016
Many Thousands Gone
March 24, 2015
The Inheritance
September 10, 2020
Fluid Frontiers
January 25, 2018
American Hunger
February 22, 2018
Forged Ways
January 1, 2010
Calder for Peter
April 1, 2017
Sketches and Portraits for Jean-Michel
January 1, 2018
Points on a Space Age
February 4, 2009
Isis & Osiris
February 23, 2025
Behind the camera11
- 2025Isis & Osiris Director
- 2020The Inheritance Producer, Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor, Camera Operator, Production Design, Casting
- 2018American Hunger Producer, Director, Writer
- 2018Fluid Frontiers Original Music Composer, Camera Operator, Director, Editor
- 2018Sketches and Portraits for Jean-Michel Director
- 2017Calder for Peter Director
- 2016Kindah Director, Producer
- 2015Many Thousands Gone Director
- 2010Forged Ways Camera Operator, Director
- 2009