BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions

Director: Kahlil Joseph
Screenwriters: Saidiya Hartman, Irvin Hunt, Kahlil Joseph

Institute History

  • 2025 Sundance Film Festival

Description

Preeminent West African curator and scholar Funmilayo Akechukwu’s magnum opus, The Resonance Field, leads her to the heart of the Atlantic Ocean, drawing a journalist into a journey that shatters her understanding of consciousness and time.


Kahlil Joseph returns to Sundance with this crowning achievement and latest iteration of his ongoing visionary project, BLKNWS (featured in New Frontier, 2020 Sundance Film Festival). A boldly inventive feature film, firmly rooted in an encyclopedic survey of a people manifesting a generative world history that sidesteps empire, BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions weaves together the journeys of W. E. B. Du Bois, Joseph’s own family legacy, and a mysterious young journalist who boards an International cruise liner, the Nautica, to cover the Transatlantic Biennial while cleverly staying undercover.


Magnetic and vibrational, BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions is a radiant and immersive cinematic experience that offers seminal insight into the distinct phenomenon of what it means to occupy a state of being intoxicated with freedom.—Shari Frilot



Screenings include closed and open captions.

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