American Hunger

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Juror Presentation: Ephraim Asili's Diaspora Suite
Screening Room - Michigan Theater Thu, Mar 22, 2018 1:00 PM
“Asili has concluded a five-part film suite that examines the African diaspora through a series of immeasurable equations: America and abroad (with films shot in Ghana and Ethiopia, as well as Brazil, Jamaica, and Canada); personal and collective history; the past and the present; imaginations and realities; and image and sound. Abandoning digital video for 16mm, Asili has developed his documentary impulse into something more spontaneous and musical, his eye attuned to the unexpected rhythms afforded by montage.” – Jesse Cumming, Cinema Scope
Film Info
Event Type:Juror Presentation: Ephraim Asili's Diaspora Suite
Release Year:2013
Production Country:USA
Cast/Crew Info
Director:Ephraim Asili

Description

Oscillating between a street festival in Philadelphia, the slave forts and capital 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. African fantasies confront American realities. American realities confront African fantasies…