Isaac Julien

DirectingBorn 1960-02-21 (65)East End, London, England, UK

Filmmaker and installation artist, Isaac Julien was born in 1960 in London, where he currently lives and works. His multi-screen film installations and photographs incorporate different artistic disciplines to create a poetic and unique visual language. His 1989 documentary-drama exploring author Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance titled Looking for Langston garnered Julien a cult following while his 1991 debut feature Young Soul Rebels won the Semaine de la Critique prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

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Isaac Julien

Known For

Scala!!!

Lost Boundaries

Daddy and the Muscle Academy

Queer as Art

This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement

Black and White in Colour

Reframing AIDS

Gay Black Group

Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art

Black Nations/Queer Nations?

Filmography

Once Again... (Statues Never Die)

Scala!!!

Once Again... (Statues Never Die)

Encore No.1 Paradise Omeros

30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing

Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art

Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous Entanglement

Lessons of the Hour

Queer as Art

Playtime

Ten Thousand Waves

Derek

Western Union: Small Boats

Portrait in Blue: Essex Hemphill

Fantôme Afrique

True North

Lost Boundaries

Baltimore

BaadAsssss Cinema

Paradise Omeros

Three

Vagabondia

Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask

Black Nations/Queer Nations?

The Darker Side of Black

The Attendant

Black and White in Colour

Daddy and the Muscle Academy

Young Soul Rebels

Looking for Langston

Dreaming Rivers

This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement

Reframing AIDS

The Passion of Remembrance

Territories

Gay Black Group

Who Killed Colin Roach?