In his cinematic meditations on the African diaspora, the peculiarities of African and African American experience, and the relationship between individual experience and collective memory, multi-hyphenate artist Ephraim Asili routinely leaps across thousands of miles and hundreds of years in a single bound. Born in Pennsylvania—the setting of his feature debut, The Inheritance—but an endlessly curious citizen of the world, Asili’s films travel the planet in search of the parallels that might define a pan-African identity.
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