Based on Kahil Joseph's art installation BLKNWS is a one of a kind film that mixes real footage with created footage and edited in a hypnotic way that picks you up and pulls you along. Less a traditional narrative and more a collection of ideas, the filmmakers refer to it as a kind of cinematic record album, the film works on a subconcious level to create something that may seem like some avant garde films I've seen while remaining wholly unique.
Wow, just wow.
You will forgive me for the brevirty of this piece, but I don't know how to explain it. It's been ten days since I saw the film and I don't know how to write this up. That's a rave, because it means that this is a film that you have to enage with. You can't be an inactive particpant, you have to be fully there and fully fighting with it in order to get everything tha Kahil Joseph want's you to.
Additionally this isn't a film, so much as an experience. The act of seeing the film is a physical, mental and psychic trip to somewhere else. Even though you do not leave your seat during the viewing you are physically, mentally and psychically somewhere else when you get to the end.
For anyone who does not want conventional filmmaking this film is a must.
Highly recommended.
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