
Director
Ephraim Asili
Born 1979 · 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.
Directed

Kindah
Director · 2016

The Inheritance
Director · 2020

Fluid Frontiers
Director · 2018

American Hunger
Director · 2018

Many Thousands Gone
Director · 2015

Forged Ways
Director · 2011

Calder for Peter
Director · 2017

Points on a Space Age
Director · 2009

Sketches and Portraits for Jean-Michel
Director · 2018
Movie Tote
Director

Isis & Osiris
Director · 2025