Free admission, open to all.
This screening event will be followed by Q&A with the director, Ephraim Asili. Ephraim’s visit is in collaboration with the Department of Film & Media at Queen’s University.
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 commonalties 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.
About the artist:
Ephraim Asili is an African American artist, filmmaker, writer, activist, DJ, and traveler whose work focuses on the African diaspora as a cultural force. Asili’s films have screened in festivals and venues all over the world, including the New York Film Festival, the Berlinale, and the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Asili’s feature debut, The Inheritance, premiered at TIFF and was recently acquired by the Whitney Museum of American Art for its permanent collection. The work also provides a conceptual framework for the Whitney’s current major exhibition, also entitled Inheritance. In 2020, Asili was named as one of “25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker magazine. In 2021, Asili was a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation recipient. Most recently, Asili directed the short film, Strange Math, and a live fashion show at the Louvre for Louis Vuitton, featuring Sun Ra’s myth science and the FAMU marching band. Asili is currently the director of the Film and Electronic Arts Program at Bard College, where he is also an associate professor teaching film production and film studies.
| Series | |
| Genre |
DramaFree Admission
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| Runtime | 100 + Q&A with the filmmaker |
| Rated | NR |
| Directed By | Ephraim Asili |
| Language | English |
