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What might a collectively authored Black future look like? For creative polymath Ephraim Asili, it is one that knows its past as well as its present.
With his feature-length debut film “The Inheritance,” the West Philadelphia-raised, New York-based filmmaker presents a reflectively avant-garde portrait of the connective threads between community making, historical archives and political awakening. Shaping an easy bricolage of what Asili refers to as a “speculative reenactment” of his time spent living in a Black radical collective, the Black Arts Movement, and the MOVE Black liberation group, “The Inheritance”
resists convention in its easeful movements between documentary, fictive narrative and cultural archaeology.