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.
Direction
Joseph treats documentary like soulful mixtape curation.
Cinematography
Every frame could hang in a museum—or a club.
Sound
Sonic architecture that *is* the narrative engine.
Director
Kahlil Joseph
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Joseph's original BLKNWS installation premiered at the 2019 Venice Biennale, turning news cycles into Black vernacular art.
The fictionalized Du Bois/Garvey dialogues deliberately collapse their real ideological opposition into collaborative dreaming—Joseph's radical historiography at work.
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