BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions. 2025. Directed by Kahlil Joseph

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Held on Tue, Dec 30, 2025, 7:00 p.m.

Introduced by cinematographer Bradford Young

MoMA, Floor T1, Theater 1

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1

BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions. 2025. USA. Directed by Kahlil Joseph. Courtesy Rich Spirit

BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions. 2025. USA. Directed by Kahlil Joseph. DCP courtesy Rich Spirit. A Rich Spirit release, with special thanks to their community partner, Be Reel Black Cinema Club. 113 min.

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, 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, and 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.

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