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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 local and global politics.
Ephraim Asili Radcliffe-FSC Fellow 2023-24 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. He received his B.A. in Film and Media
Ephraim Asili is an African American artist, filmmaker, 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. Often inspired by his day-to-day wanderings, Asili creates art that situates itself as a series of meditations of ...
Feb 5, 2024 · Ephraim Asili MFA ’11, associate professor of film and electronic arts and director of the Film and Electronic Arts Program, has won a 2024 Creative Capital Award for $50,000, which provides unrestricted project funding, to support his documentary film Eternal Rhythm. The film explores the personal and artistic relationship between Don and Moki Cherry after the couple moved from New York to ...
Sep 16, 2020 · Ephraim Asili on capturing radical collectivity in his first feature film. By Jordan Cronk. September 16, 2020 8:00 am. Production still of Ephraim Asili’s The Inheritance, 2020. Photo: Mick Bello. In The Inheritance, director Ephraim Asili presents a dramatic narrative based on his years in a West Philadelphia Black radical collective.
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Apr 11, 2021 · Ephraim Asili’s The Inheritance opens with the protagonist, Julian (Eric Lockley), sorting through a large chest of books in the West Philadelphia house left to him by his grandmother. At the end of the film, in an extended take, he grudgingly cleans up the living room after a reading by the poet and performance artist Ursula Rucker.
Aug 30, 2021 · Asili’s eclectic program for the Criterion Channel, Notes on The Inheritance, features films that blur the boundaries between fact and fiction, probe the public and private dimensions of performance, and disrupt the status quo. In the following conversation, Asili discusses his personal and artistic relationships to the work in this lineup.
