BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions

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BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions

2025

1h 53m

Sci-Fi

Drama

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Adapted from Kahlil Joseph's renowned video art installation, BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions is a distinctive 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.

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Abiba Coulibaly

Sight & Sound

Jan 13

For 113 minutes Joseph's BLKNWS transforms that space, crafting a portal to epistemological provocation and creative chaos of the best kind.

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Manohla Dargis

New York Times

Jan 5

In “BLKNWS,” Joseph doesn’t merely tell one neatly packaged story, he opens up a world of stories, some still waiting to be told.

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Aisha Harris

NPR

02/28/2025

Its most affecting moments are the essayistic montages of archival footage, which stitch together a clear-eyed mediation on memory, lineage, and the meaning of freedom.

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Andrew Kendall

Stabroek News

Jun 21

There’s a thrumming intellectual core running through BLKNWS, as it problematises our ideas of history, the documentary as a form, archival work and political filmmaking.

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Charles Mudede

The Stranger (Seattle, WA)

Feb 2

Do not make the mistake of missing this film.

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Stephen Silver

The SS Ben Hecht

Jan 9

A dynamite cinematic essay, comprised of a history lesson, an exploration of Encyclopedia Africana, and a trip aboard an Afro-futurist ship across the Atlantic.

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Althea

Jan 9

It was wonderfully different, strong, fresh, historically accurate and futuristic, a lot to absorb yet not enough, a must see. I was topped off in a good way. I will see this again. I hope it is available to purchase one day. It will be a classic.

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Steph

Dec 12

It’s like if an art exhibit were a film. Beautiful. Can’t wait to see it again.

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cryorc

Dec 1

Loved this film! Excellent story telling.

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Magic

Nov 29

The different nature of visually telling history. It’s a strong representation of an artist.

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S. F

@RT34254672 Mar 21

I was so excited to see this but found it self important and way too long

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themanicexec

Mar 6

its anchored yet drifting poetic musings on past lives, future lives, love, death, and cosmic consciousness strike a deep emotional chord.

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Adapted from Kahlil Joseph's renowned video art installation, BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions is a distinctive 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.

Director: Kahlil Joseph
Producer: Onye Anyanwu, Kahlil Joseph, Amy Greenleaf, Nic Gonda
Screenwriter: Sheba Anyanwu, Kristen Adele Calhoun, Madebo Fatunde, Kahlil Joseph, Saidiya Hartman, Irvin Hunt
Distributor: Rich Spirit
Production Co: Rich Spirit, BN Media
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 28, 2025, Limited
Runtime: 1h 53m