Adapted from the artist Kahlil Joseph’s video exhibition that carried the same name.
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions is a distinctive cinematic experience that mirrors the sonic textures of a record album, weaving fiction and history in an immersive journey where the fictionalized figures of W. E. B Du Bois and Marcus Garvey join artists, musicians, Joseph’s family, and even Twitter chats, in a vision for black consciousness.

BLKNWS_ Terms and Conditions.mkv

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Kenneth Martin Jacobs (May 25, 1933 – October 5, 2025) was an American experimental filmmaker. His style often involved the use of found footage which he edited and manipulated. He also directed films using his own footage.

Ken Jacobs was born in Brooklyn on May 25, 1933. He directed Blonde Cobra in 1963. This short film stars Jack Smith who directed his own Flaming Creatures the same year. In 1969 he directed Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son (1969, USA), in which he took the original 1905 short film and manipulated the footage to recontextualize it. This is considered an important first example of deconstruction in film. The film was admitted to the National Film Registry in 2007. His Star Spangled to Death (2004, USA) is a nearly seven-hour film consisting largely of found footage. Jacobs began compiling the archival footage in 1957 and the film took 47 years to complete.

Jacobs taught at the Cinema Department at Harpur College at Binghamton University from 1969 to 2002.

In the 1990s, Jacobs began working with John Zorn and experimented with a stroboscopic effect, digital video, and 3D effects. Jacobs died from kidney failure in Manhattan, New York, on October 5, 2025, at the age of 92. His wife and frequent collaborator, Flo, died in June of the same year.

	
BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 40.mkv

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The infamous haunted movie from the mad English painter David Fleas.

OPERA MORTEM.mkv

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Hsieh is an artist whose medium of expression is not words or sounds or paint, but his own life. His work consists of five “One Year Performances,” done between the years of 1978 and 1986, and “Earth,” a thirteen-year performance that stretched from the end of 1986 to the end of 1999. Each of these Performances involves a particular vow, a particular constraint, and a particular mode of being. Each of them is meticulously documented in a manner appropriate to its content. And, although Hsieh never explicitly states his rationales for his pieces, each of them implicitly raises profound, difficult questions about life and art and being, and about what it means to live in the world we live in.

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The video is edited from conversations I recorded in Texas last year with a young Army sergeant who was waiting to return for his second tour in Iraq. Over several days, he told me two different stories and I chopped them up and braided them together into one. The first story takes place in Bavaria and involves a date with a German girl who’s into speed and self-mutilation.
The second story takes place outside Baghdad and involves a road-side bomb and a tragic mistake. These two stories, along with bits and pieces from the rest of the interviews, were edited into a script which was given to a group of actors to interpret in a series of silent tableaux.
As an installation the work tries to deal with its subject matter in terms of pairs: Interviewee and interviewer, memory and the movies, love and death, routine and accident.
Omer Fast

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A personal interpretation of the poetry and letters of T S Eliot. The Waste Land explores the ambiguities of language and space in a scenario built around an anagram.

Waldemar Januszczak, The Sunday Times, February 11th 2018, wrote:
I especially admired John Smith’s short film, set in a pub lavatory, where the dankness of Eliot’s postwar pessimism finds a perfect textural echo in the grim details of the urinal. “The nymphs are departed. Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song,” recites the artist, cruelly, as the bog fills up with urine. In a clever and comic concluding touch, the closing door of the toilets is signed with a wicked anagram, TSELIOT.

Cate Elwes, ‘UK/Canadian Video Exchange’ 2000, wrote:
A brilliant, absurd staging of Eliot’s The Waste Land in the local pub by the master of irony himself. Smith’s use of the subjective camera tradition of independent film takes the viewer on a shaky journey from bar to bog and back again.

John Smith - 1999 - The Waste Land [DVD-PAL].mkv

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Lost Sound documents fragments of discarded audio tape found on the streets of a small area of East London, combining the sound retrieved from each piece of tape with images of the place where it was found. The work explores the potential of chance, creating portraits of particular places by building formal, narrative and musical connections between images and sounds linked by the random discovery of the tape samples.

Helen Legg, notes for solo exhibition at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 2006, wrote:
A lyrical and poignant response to the urban environment, Lost Sound depicts the city as a disparate and fragmented series of personal histories. A sense of migration, loss and displacement seeps through upbeat soundtracks from sunnier climes.

John Smith - 2001 - Lost Sound [DVD-PAL].mkv

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