
Free Talk: Black World-Making
63rd New York Film Festival
September 26 - October 13, 2025
Speakers

Kahlil Joseph

Kaneza Schaal

Jon-Sesrie Goff

Savanah Leaf

Raven Jackson
Taking inspiration loosely from W.E.B. Dubois’s unfinished Encyclopedia Africana project, BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions, directed by celebrated artist and filmmaker Kahlil Joseph, is a moving-image work like no other—a sui generis gush of images, narratives, and modes that is as erudite as it is irreverent. Ideas from Saidiya Hartman, Fred Moten, Marcus Garvey, and others mix with images from artists like Garrett Bradley and Arthur Jafa, as well as samples from the capacious world of social and broadcast media, offering an alternately riotous and meditative compendium of the Black experience. Joseph, artist Kaneza Schaal (who directed a segment of the film and stars in it), Jon-Sesrie Goff (multidisciplinary artist, curator, and Program Officer at the Ford Foundation), Savanah Leaf (Earth Mama, New Directors/New Films 2024), and Raven Jackson (All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, NYFF61) will join us for a discussion about cinema as a force for Black world-making, shaping memory, and imagining new futures.
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