The Inheritance, with filmmaker Ephraim Asili

UCLA Film & Television Archive and Los Angeles Filmforum present

The Inheritance, with filmmaker Ephraim Asili

Sunday August 17, 2025, 7:00 pm
At the Billy Wilder Theater,  Courtyard Level, Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd. (northeast corner of Wilshire and Westwood Blvd.), Los Angeles, CA 90024

In person: Ephraim Asili

Tickets: Free

Link: https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/inheritance-2025-08-17

This series explores what it means to be housed — and to truly feel at home — in an age of ongoing displacement. In Los Angeles, often romanticized as a city of sunshine and celebrity, over 75,000 people are unhoused, the majority within the city proper. As officials struggle to implement lasting solutions, neighbors and tenant organizers fight to preserve communities made vibrant by longtime residents. This series celebrates their work and situates it within a global context, from South Central Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., to Palestine, where home is under threat and the right to stay uncertain. Over four nights, the films examine the fragile, shifting meaning of home — not just as shelter, but as identity, belonging and collective memory. While housing is essential to survival, it is the people, places and histories within those structures that turn a house into a home, a neighborhood into a community.

Series programmed and notes written by Associate Programmer Nicole Ucedo and Public Programmer Beandrea July.

Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis. The box office opens one hour before the event.

Ephraim Asili is an African American artist, filmmaker, DJ, and traveler whose work focuses on the African diaspora as a cultural force. His childhood and adolescence were imbued with hip-hop music, Hollywood movies, and television. Often inspired by his day-to-day wanderings, Asili creates art that situates itself as a series of meditations of the everyday. He received his BA in film and media arts from Temple University and his MFA in film and interdisciplinary art at Bard College. Asili is currently the director of the Film and Electronic Arts Program at Bard College, where he is also an associate professor teaching film production and film studies.

Asili’s films have screened in festivals and venues all over the world, including the New York Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, the Berlinale, and the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Asili’s feature debut, The Inheritance, premiered at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival. The Inheritance was recently acquired by the Whitney Museum of American Art for its permanent collection andis currently in distribution with Grasshopper Films. In 2020, Asili was named as one of "25 New Faces of Independent Film" by Filmmaker magazine. In 2021, Asili was a 2021 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation recipient. Most recently, Asili directed the short film, Strange Math, and a live fashion show at the Louvre for Louis Vuitton.

The screening is part of (Dis)placement: Fluctuations of Home

Parking:

Convenient self-parking is available under the Hammer Museum. Parking entrances are located on the east side of Westwood Boulevard (northbound) or on the west side of Glendon Boulevard (southbound), between Wilshire Boulevard and Lindbrook Drive. Rates are $8 for the first three hours with museum validation, and $3 for each additional 20 minutes, with a $22 daily maximum. There is a $8 flat rate after 5 p.m. on weekdays, and all day on weekends.

Accessible parking spaces are located on Levels P1 and P3 of the museum’s parking garage. Accessible spaces on P1 are located on the parking entry level, directly across from the lobby entrance. Accessible spaces on P3 are located adjacent to the elevators.