Adapted from Kahlil Joseph’s renowned video art installation, the film 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.
Presented at Berlin and Sundance film festivals.
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
2025
14 years
113 min.
Documentary, Fiction
USA, Ghana
USA, Ghana, art, music, documentary, experimental, international film festivals
Colorido, P&B
Kahlil Joseph
Kahlil Joseph, Onye Anyanwu, Saidiya Hartman, Irvin Hunt, Madebo Fatunde, Kristen Adele Calhoun, Christina Sharpe, Kaneza Schaal
Bradford Young
Kahlil Joseph, Luke Lynch, Paul Rogers
Kahlil Joseph, Onye Anyanwu
Rich Spirit Studios, Just Films/FordFoundation, BLKNWS, Boat Films
Klein
49