BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions

An extension of Joseph’s thirty-minute video art installation, “BLKNWS” is a heady, furiously constructed work that clips together archival and found footage, film and music references, notations and academic research, memes, and online chatter to jumble the past and the…

Robert Daniels

Still mulling this one over. I found this fascinating, enlivening, richly layered but not deeply exploratory. The fictive elements are fascinating in its ideas but not consistently their execution. What are the limitations of the encyclopedic form in here? What are the…

Angelica Jade Bastién🪼🌷

I’m so glad I had the chance to see BLKNWS: TERMS & CONDITIONS after all its behind-the-scenes turmoil because it’s one of my absolute favorites from this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Khalil Joseph delivers an enthralling, boundary-pushing cinematic collage, both…

Matt Neglia

a mixture of a newspaper, tv series and music record (as you could summarize what the director said). a big budget hollywood production which is a little bit crazy, thinking about the fact that this is based on a subversive experimental installation. reminded me a lot…

shookone

The director of this movie really wants you to think this isn't, at its core, a documentary. But the longer you watch, the more the scripted elements of the movie seem completely unnecessary and separate from the rest of the film. It is beautifully edited and shot, and the…

john

“BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions”—the rich, multi-faceted feature directorial debut from Kahlil Joseph—is an immersion into Blackness. That immersion—which pulls us into a becoming that is constantly moving, shifting, communing, and separating—isn’t accomplished by providing a…

Robert Daniels

BLKNWS: 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…

Kevflix And Chill

as much an essay film or art piece as it is a consistently energetic capsule of Black culture -- I'm not sure how this will play theatrically but if anything, I wanted more of it; the best thing I saw at Sundance this year

Justin LaLiberty

“I love you because you’re a gift I get to experience in this life, until I don’t anymore. Until I meet you again.”A little under a year ago I went to a discussion with Raven Jackson & Kahlil and the bulk of it was him talking about how long it’s taken him to edit this…

Adam