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Kahlil Joseph & James Shani Talk ‘BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions’, Why Rich Spirit Acquired The Film From Participant & Plans For A Wide Cinema Release — Q&A
'BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions' screened this week at the Berlin Film Festival.
An old quote, often ascribed to Jim Jarmusch, popped into my head after seeing Kahlil Joseph ’s impressive feature debut BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions this week in Berlin. In BLKNWS, Joseph honors this tradition, trading in any broad conventions about the shape or content of feature filmmaking for a personal approach that is challenging, accessible, yet, miraculously, unlike much else we’ve seen on the big screen before. Binding all this together are thousands of images, everything from internet memes to archive Agnes Varda interviews and spliced sections from the work of Joseph’s contemporaries like Garrett Bradley and Ja’Tovia Gary, that are skillfully layered alongside a detailed and diverse soundscape.
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