Ephraim Asili: Three Films

press release: And next Thursday, February 28 at 7:15pm, Mills Folly Microcinema presents Ephraim Asili: Three Films. Asili is a filmmaker, DJ, and traveler whose work focuses on the African diaspora as a cultural force. $5 (free for ALL members)

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, and the Whitney Museum.  Asili currently resides in Hudson, NY, and is a Professor in the Film and Electronic Arts Department at Bard College.  

Fluid Frontiers | Ephraim Asili | USA | 2017 | 23:00

Fluid Frontiers explores Asili’s personal relationship to the African Diaspora. Shot along the Detroit River, Fluid Frontiers explores the relationship between concepts of resistance and liberation, exemplified by the Underground Railroad, Broadside Press, and artworks of local Detroit Artists. All of the poems are read from original copies of Broadside Press publications by natives of the Detroit/Windsor region, and were shot without rehearsal.  

Kindah | Ephraim Asili | USA | 2016 | 12:00

Kindah was shot in Hudson, NY and Accompong, Jamaica. Accompong was founded in 1739 after rebel slaves and their descendants fought a protracted war with the British leading to the establishment of a treaty between the two sides. The treaty signed under British governor Edward Trelawny granted Cudjoe’s Maroons 1,500 acres of land between their strongholds of Trelawny Town and Accompong in the Cockpits. Cudjoe, a leader of the Maroons, is said to have united them in their fight for autonomy under the Kindah Tree — a large, ancient mango tree that still stands to this day. The tree symbolizes the kinship of the community on its common land. 

American Hunger | Ephraim Asili | USA | 2013 | 19:00

American Hunger: Oscillating between a street festival in Philadelphia, the slave forts and capitol city of Ghana, and the New Jersey shore, American Hunger explores the relationship between personal experience and collective histories. American fantasies confront African realities. African realities confront America fantasies.

Title descriptions by Video Data Bank.