Ephraim Asili

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1979-01-01 (45 years old)

Place of Birth Roslyn, Pennsylvania, USA

Ephraim Asili

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

Director

Movie Tote

as Director

2020
The Inheritance

as Director

2018
Fluid Frontiers

as Director

2017
Calder for Peter

as Director

2016
Kindah

as Director

2015
2013
American Hunger

as Director

2011
Forged Ways

as Director

2009

Producer

2020
The Inheritance

as Producer

2016
Kindah

as Producer

2013
American Hunger

as Producer

Camera

2018
Fluid Frontiers

as Camera Operator

2011
Forged Ways

as Camera Operator

Writer

2020
The Inheritance

as Writer

2013
American Hunger

as Writer

Sound

2018
Fluid Frontiers

as Original Music Composer

Editor

2018
Fluid Frontiers

as Editor