Ephraim Asili
Known for
Directing
Born
January 1, 1979 (age 47)
Birthplace
Roslyn, Pennsylvania, USA
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 Inter...
Best known work
Kindah
2016
Many Thousands Gone
2015
The Inheritance
2020
Fluid Frontiers
2018
American Hunger
2018
Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder
2017
Forged Ways
2010
Movie Tote
Calder for Peter
2017
Sketches and Portraits for Jean-Michel
2018Filmography
TBA
Movie ToteDirector
2025
Isis & OsirisDirector
2020
The InheritanceProducer, Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor, Camera Operator, Production Design, Casting
2018
American HungerWriter, Producer, Director
2018
Fluid FrontiersOriginal Music Composer, Camera Operator, Director, Editor
2018
2017
2017
Calder for PeterDirector
2016
KindahProducer, Director
2015
Many Thousands GoneDirector
2010
Forged WaysCamera Operator, Director
2009
Points on a Space AgeDirector