Ephraim Asili

Forged Ways (2011) includes footage shot in Ethiopia, along with scenes set in Harlem following a protagonist played by Julian Rozzell Jr. Rozzell reappears in American Hunger (2013), which features footage from Philadelphia and Ocean City in the U.S. and Cape Coast and Accra in Ghana.

Many Thousands Gone (2014), named after an essay by James Baldwin, was filmed in Harlem and Salvador, Brazil, with an improvised jazz score by Joe McPhee.

Kindah (2016), filmed in Hudson, New York and Accompong, Jamaica, features a score by Asili of percussion and wind instruments.

[3] The film's plot and highly stylized set design were inspired by Jean-Luc Godard's La Chinoise.

[5] The interior scenes were shot at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and exteriors were filmed in West Philadelphia.