In “BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions” — which was reinstated at the Sundance Film Festival after a dispute over its edit — director Khalil Joseph radically reimagines the world through a Black lens, while self-reflexively observing the difficulties of doing so. The film is a pulsing, essayistic docu-fiction piece that defies categorization. It unfolds partially on a futuristic, polygonal transatlantic vessel boarded by a journalist (Shaunette Renée Wilson) and an arts academic (Keneza Schaal, playing a fictionalized version of real curator Funmilayo Akechukwu). However, this narrative framing device — which often loops back on itself, as a dreamlike film within the film — is merely an anchor for a more
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