Notes on THE INHERITANCE

Notes on THE INHERITANCE

10 Episodes

To celebrate the streaming premiere of THE INHERITANCE, director Ephraim Asili has curated a program of formally, intellectually, and politically radical films that inspired his brilliant debut feature. Encompassing landmarks of Black American cinema by Oscar Micheaux (WITHIN OUR GATES) and Kathleen Collins (LOSING GROUND), counterculture provocations by Shirley Clarke (THE CONNECTION) and Norman Mailer (MAIDSTONE), and experimental documentaries by William Greaves (SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE ONE) and Chris Marker (SANS SOLEIL), the works he has selected reverberate with the same revolutionary spirit as the THE INHERITANCE.

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Notes on THE INHERITANCE
  • The Connection

    Episode 1

    Directed by Shirley Clarke • 1961 • United States
    Starring Warren Finnerty, Jerome Raphel, Garry Goodrow

    Shirley Clarke made a splash—and ignited a landmark censorship case—with her controversial feature debut, an innovative adaptation of Jack Gelber’s off-Broadway play in which the line between...

  • 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her

    Episode 2

    Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • 1967 • France
    Starring Marina Vlady, Anny Duperey, Joseph Gerhard

    In 2 OR 3 THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER (2 OU 3 CHOSES QUE JE SAIS D’ELLE), Jean-Luc Godard beckons us ever closer, whispering in our ears as narrator. About what? Money, sex, fashion, the city, love, langu...

  • Mandabi

    Episode 3

    Directed by Ousmane Sembène • 1968 • Senegal
    Starring Makuredia Guey, Yunus Ndiaye, Isseu Niang

    This second feature by Ousmane Sembène was the first movie ever made in the Wolof language—a major step toward the realization of the trailblazing Senegalese filmmaker’s dream of creating a cinema by,...

  • Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One

    Episode 4

    Directed by William Greaves • 1968 • United States
    Starring William Greaves, Patricia Ree Gilbert, Don Fellows

    In his one-of-a-kind fiction/documentary hybrid SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM TAKE ONE, director William Greaves presides over a beleaguered film crew in New York’s Central Park, leaving them t...

  • Maidstone

    Episode 5

    Directed by Norman Mailer • 1970 • United States

    Over a booze-fueled, increasingly hectic five-day shoot in East Hampton, Norman Mailer and his cast and crew spontaneously unloaded onto film the lurid and loony chronicle of U.S. presidential candidate and filmmaker Norman T. Kingsley debating an...

  • Tout va bien

    Episode 6

    Directed by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin • 1972 • France, Italy
    Starring Jane Fonda, Yves Montand

    In 1972, newly radicalized Hollywood star Jane Fonda joined forces with cinematic innovator Jean-Luc Godard and collaborator Jean-Pierre Gorin in an unholy artistic alliance that resulted i...

  • Amarcord

    Episode 7

    Directed by Federico Fellini • 1973 • France, Italy

    This carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy during the fascist period, the most personal film from Federico Fellini, satirizes the director's youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals, adolescent desires, male fantasies, an...

  • Opening Night

    Episode 8

    Directed by John Cassavetes • 1977 • United States
    Starring Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara

    While in the midst of rehearsals for her latest play, Broadway actor Myrtle Gordon (Gena Rowlands) witnesses the accidental death of an adoring young fan, after which she begins to confront th...

  • Losing Ground

    Episode 9

    Directed by Kathleen Collins • 1982 • United States
    Starring Seret Scott, Bill Gunn, Duane Jones

    One of the first feature films directed by an African American woman, Kathleen Collins’s LOSING GROUND tells the story of a marriage between two remarkable people, both at a crossroads in their lives...

  • Sans Soleil

    Episode 10

    Directed by Chris Marker • 1983 • France

    Chris Marker, filmmaker, poet, novelist, photographer, editor, and now videographer and digital multimedia artist, has been challenging moviegoers, philosophers, and himself for years with his complex queries about time, memory, and the rapid advancement ...