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“New York–based outfit Grasshopper Film has acquired North American rights to Ephraim Asili’s debut feature, The Inheritance, following its premiere at Toronto and screening at the New York Film Festival,” writes Variety. “A Pennsylvania-born filmmaker, Asili has been exploring different facets of the African diaspora for nearly a decade, and The Inheritance is based on his own experiences in a Black liberationist group.” Ephraim Asili is assistant professor of film and electronic arts at Bard and a graduate of the Bard MFA Program.

“What I love most about Sillman’s writing is how you can feel her pawing around in the dark, trying to suss out not only the right words to use, but the right way to contend with her subjects: the work of her peers and forebears, and the unwieldy question of painting’s status in a world preoccupied with bigger problems,” writes Andrea Gyorody. “She adeptly pokes fun at theory and art history, but she’s at her best making the case for awkwardness, for all that ‘which is fleshy, funny, downward-facing, uncontrollable.’”