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BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions

2025 · 110 min

An immersive, album-like collage that drifts between history and fiction, asking you to absorb its textures rather than follow a straight story.

Directed by: Kahlil Joseph
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Kaneza Schaal, Hope Giselle, Shaunette Renée Wilson

Overview: 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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Directed by: Kahlil Joseph
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Kaneza Schaal, Hope Giselle, Shaunette Renée Wilson

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Tone: earneststrength 2 of 3
whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: race
identity
art
media
memory
Places: big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
documentary
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Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none

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Genres: documentary
Directed by: Kahlil Joseph
Written by: Saidiya Hartman, Irvin Hunt, Kahlil Joseph, Onye Anyanwu
Starring: Kaneza Schaal, Hope Giselle, Shaunette Renée Wilson, Tony Okungbowa, Zora Casebere, Peter Jay Fernandez, Penny Johnson Jerald, John Tijani
Music: Klein
Cinematography: Bradford Young
Runtime: 110 min
Country: United States of America
Languages: English

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