BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
63rd New York Film Festival
September 26 - October 13, 2025
A multidimensional work of vision and ambition, BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions expands visual artist Kahlil Joseph’s installation into a feature film, an alternately riotous and meditative compendium of the Black experience.
Visual artist and filmmaker Kahlil Joseph’s video installation BLKNWS debuted in galleries and museums across the country in 2019, immersing viewers in the imagined world of a television news network from a Black perspective. After expanding this concept into a short film, Joseph has developed it even further into a feature film, and the result is a celebration of Black life that reconceptualizes and remediates common, corporate notions of journalism. Joseph’s sprawling film is an uninterrupted gush of ideas, mixing newly shot footage and extant media, leaping from fantastical images to historical narratives, collapsing boundaries that often separate documentary and fiction. A multidimensional work of vision and ambition, BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions offers an alternately riotous and meditative compendium of the Black experience. A Rich Spirit release.
Special thanks to our Community Partner, Be Reel Black Cinema Club.
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