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Review: A Black commune weighs the past, present and future in The Inheritance Sarah-Tai Black © Provided by The LA Times Chris Jarrell, from left, Nozipho Mclean and Eric Lockley in the movie "The Inheritance." (Grasshopper Film) What might a collectively authored Black future look like? For creative polymath Ephraim Asili, it is one that knows its past as well as its present. With his feature-length debut film "The Inheritance," the West Philadelphia-raised, New York-based...

For the most part, an “inheritance” left to you by an older relative or loved one is considered a personalized, even intimate, gift. An heirloom, perhaps, or a collection of items, or maybe even a certain amount of money, or a home—some sort of one-to-one relationship between the person doing the giving, and the person doing the receiving. And Ephraim Asili’s feature-length debut film “The Inheritance” begins with that setup: a young man inherits a West Philadelphia rowhome left to ...

Ephraim Asili’s film about a group of Black activists living in a communal household is a cinematic throwback and a radical stand in the present with an eye to the future. It’s agitprop with a sense of humor, purpose, and history, and it is invigorating.