Ephraim Asili Movies
- 2020
The Inheritance
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Based on real events, the film’s protagonist inherits a house in West Philadelphia that becomes home to an urban collective for activists of...
- 2018
Fluid Frontiers
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Shot in Detroit and Windsor, Fluid Frontiers is the culmination of Ephraim Asili's project exploring the artist's relationship with the African...
- 2015
Many Thousands Gone
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Street scenes from Salvador, Brazil and Harlem, New York.
- 2011
Forged Ways
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Filmed on location in Harlem (NY) and Ethiopia, Forged Ways oscillates between the first person account of a filmmaker, a man navigating the streets...
- 2013
American Hunger
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Oscillating between a street festival in Philadelphia, the slave forts and capitol city of Ghana, and the New Jersey shore, American Hunger, explores...
- 2009
Points on a Space Age
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Points on a Space Age explores the recent activity of the remaining members of the influential Sun Ra Arkestra since the passing of its founding...
- 2016
Kindah
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Shot in Hudson NY and Accompong, Jamaica. Accompong, Jamaica was founded in 1739 after rebel slaves and their descendants fought a protracted war...
- 2017
Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder
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Through softly textured 16mm photography and regional iconography, Silva offers a modernist reflection on two of upstate New York’s most...
- 2017
Calder for Peter
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A portrait of Alexander Calder's "Five Swords" as well as a tribute to a friend and mentor that I recently lost, filmmaker Peter Hutton.
- 2018
Sketches and Portraits for Jean-Michel
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“Sketches and Portraits for Jean-Michel was photographed on the streets of Brooklyn and Manhattan, two areas familiar to Basquiat, and visually...
- 1970
Movie Tote
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Constructed entirely from clips gleaned from the digitized contents of the Prelinger Archives, MOVIE TOTE explores the history of race and class in...