BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
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- Kevin WardJune 30, 2025BLKNWS: Terms and Conditions isn’t a traditional film—it’s a transmission. Adapted from Kahlil Joseph’s museum-exhibited video installation, this feature-length version unfolds like a concept album, blending 21 “tracks” of cinema, video art, music video, social media, and documentary into an experimental sonic collage. Spanning 247 years, it plays less like narrative and more like an audiovisual séance. It samples everything—W.E.B. Du Bois, TikTok rants, Vine clips, propaganda reels—and never stops to hold your hand. Dazzling, overwhelming, and occasionally obtuse, it isn’t meant to be easily digested—it asks to be felt, interpreted, questioned. It lost me at times, and that’s okay. This isn’t a conventional doc with talking heads and arcs—it’s a living document of Black thought that remixes history and media into something defiant and new. BLKNWS: Terms and Conditions won’t be for everyone, but there’s value in engaging with the echoes and impressions it leaves behind.
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BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions was released on November 28, 2025.
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions was directed by Kahlil Joseph.
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions has a runtime of 1h 50m.
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions was produced by Kahlil Joseph, Onye Anyanwu, Amy Greenleaf, Nicolas Gonda.
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.
The key characters in BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions are Sarah (Shaunette Renée Wilson), Funmilayo Akachukwu (Kaneza Schaal), Hope Giselle.
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions is rated Not Rated.
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions is a Science Fiction, Documentary, Fantasy film.
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions had a budget of $6M.