BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
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- Sun, Feb 15
- Tue, Feb 17
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Director: Kahlil Joseph Run Time: 103 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 2025
Starring: Hope Giselle, Kaneza Schaal, Penny Johnson Jerald, Peter Jay Fernandez, Shaunette Renée Wilson
Screenwriters: Sheba Anyanwu, Kristen Adele Calhoun, Madebo Fatunde, Kahlil Joseph, Saidiya Hartman, Irvin Hunt
Producers: Onye Anyanwu, Kahlil Joseph, Amy Greenleaf, Nic Gonda
Get ready for Kahlil Joseph’s visionary cinematic experience that mirrors the sonic textures of a record album, weaving fiction and history in an immersive journey where the fictionalized figures of W. E. B Du Bois and Marcus Garvey join artists, musicians, Joseph’s family, and even Twitter chats, in a vision for black consciousness.
Adapted from Joseph’s renowned video art installation, the film draws inspiration from a range of cultural and artistic touchstones: BLKNWS itself, the improvisational brilliance of Kind of Blue, the late works of Jean-Luc Godard, and the critical fabulations of Saidiya Hartman. It is shaped by conversations with Fred Moten, David Hammons, and Malik Sayeed, as well as the grounding influence of Cristina Sharpe, Dionne Brand, and the spiritual traditions of Ifá and West African cosmologies.
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions brings together every format of the moving image —cinema, video art, music video, social media, and documentary. It is a layered, multi-dimensional exploration of what the moving image can achieve, both as an artistic medium and as a tool for cultural critique.