- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- January 1, 1979
- Place of Birth
- Roslyn, Pennsylvania, USA
Ephraim Asili
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…
Filmography
movieIsis & Osiris
2025 · Director
movieThe Inheritance
2020 · Producer, Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor, Camera Operator, Production Design, Casting
movieAmerican Hunger
2018 · Director, Writer, Producer
movieFluid Frontiers
2018 · Camera Operator, Original Music Composer, Director, Editor
movieSketches and Portraits for Jean-Michel
2018 · Director
movieRide Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder
2017
movieCalder for Peter
2017 · Director
movieKindah
2016 · Director, Producer
movieMany Thousands Gone
2015 · Director
movieForged Ways
2011 · Camera Operator, Director
moviePoints on a Space Age
2009 · Director
Movie Tote
movieMovie Tote
— · Director