‘BLKNWS’: Kahlil Joseph To Direct Feature Adaptation Of His Video Exhibition For Participant & A24

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Filmmaker, music video director, and video artist Kahlil Joseph is set to make his feature directorial debut with BLKNWS® – The Feature Film (working title), an adaptation of of his video exhibition of the same name for Participant and A24.BLKNWS®​ is described by the art exhibition curator Los Angeles Nomadic Division as “a ‘conceptual news program’, or ‘conceptual journalism,’ that is simultaneously a work of art as well as a media entity.

It takes the form of a two-channel installation connected to a newscast that blurs the lines between art, reporting, entrepreneurship, and cultural critique.“Exploring film as a powerful collective experience that can be manipulated through its essential visual and audio components, ​BLKNWS® ​reflects upon the contemporary period utilizing fragments of popular culture, archival material, and filmed news desk segments.

Historical iconography sits side by side with ordinary images from our daily lives,” LAND’s description continues. “When examined through Joseph’s lens, these images are steeped with an unusual perception of contemporary society that doubles as the artist’s ethos, inheriting a new life of reflection and signification.

The dichotomy constructed by the device of the split screen polarizes the images employed, fragmenting the narrative and formalizing the images for their poetic and political potential.