BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions

Name: BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
Genre: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Documentary
Released: November 28, 2025
Duration: 113 min
Rating: 92

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Rich Spirit | Release Date: November 28, 2025 | R

Summary: 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.

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Documentary

Rating: R

Runtime: 113 min

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100

Manohla Dargis

Dec 2, 2025

I don’t think for a second that Joseph is interested in answering questions, one reason that “BLKNWS” can feel like an invitation. He wants to open your mind and maybe blow it (he succeeds on both counts) in a work that, among many other things, interrogates memory, history and the archive. Read full review

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Siddhant Adlakha

Jan 30, 2025

The film isn’t just richly textured, but rigorous in its unveiling of both history and modernity. Read full review

100

RogerEbert.com Robert Daniels

Nov 26, 2025

By fashioning a kinetic work that pulls together references and sources from Black literature, music, politics, and meme culture, “BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions” stands as a seismic intellectual awakening. Read full review

IndieWire Beandrea July

Jan 30, 2025

BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions is a rich visual assemblage born from an uncompromising artistic vision and collectively rendered praxis. One senses that it breaks typical forms, not to be contrarian, but to revel in its authentic self. Read full review

The Film Stage Jordan Raup

Feb 3, 2025

Joseph’s mesmerizing debut feels like a living, breathing dispatch from a time beyond ours, ushering in new possibilities for the form. Read full review

Lovia Gyarkye

Jan 30, 2025

A kinetic blend of a fictional Afro-futurist narrative, archival research on decades of Black visual and multimedia work, and personal history. Read full review

Marshall Shaffer

Feb 26, 2025

This hybridized essay film embodies the complications and contradictions inherent within Black history—complete with all its erasures and variances. Read full review

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