VISITING FILM / VIDEO ARTISTS & SPEAKERS SERIES Spring 2022:
Ephraim Asili, The Inheritance
Thursday, April 14, 2022, Via Zoom: https://binghamton.zoom.us/j/92492847183
7:30 PM FREE
Ephraim Asili is a filmmaker, DJ, and Traveler whose work focuses on the
African diaspora as a cultural force. His films have screened in festivals and
venues all over the world, including the New York Film Festival; Toronto
International Film Festival; Ann Arbor Film Festival; San Francisco
International Film Festival; Milano Film Festival; International Film Festival
Rotterdam; MoMA PS1; LAMOCA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the
Whitney Museum of American Art. As a DJ, Asili can be heard on his radio
program In the Cut on WGXC, or live at his monthly dance party Botanica.
Asili currently resides in Hudson, NY, and is a professor in the Film and Electronic
Arts Department at Bard College.
After nearly a decade exploring different facets of the African diaspora – and
his own place within it – Ephraim Asili makes his feature-length debut with
The Inheritance, an astonishing ensemble work set almost entirely within a
West Philadelphia house where a community of young, Black artists and
activists form a collective. A scripted drama of characters attempting to work
towards political consensus – based partly on Asili’s own experiences in a
Black liberationist group – weaves with a documentary recollection of the
Philadelphia liberation group MOVE, the victim of a notorious police
bombing in 1985. Ceaselessly finding commonalities between politics,
humor and philosophy, with Black authors and radicals at its edges, The Inheritance
is a remarkable film about the world as we know it.
–Grasshopper Film
Co-sponsored by the Cinema Department and Harpur College Dean’s Speakers Series.
