Isaac Julien
Born
21 February 1960 (66)
Place of Birth
East End, London, England, UK
Biography
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 ...
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.
Filmography (39)
Once Again... (Statues Never Die)
2025
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Scala!!!
2024
Once Again... (Statues Never Die)
2022
Encore No.1 Paradise Omeros
2021
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30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019
Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art
2019
Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous Entanglement
2019
Lessons of the Hour
2019
Queer as Art
2017
Playtime
2013
Ten Thousand Waves
2010
Derek
2008
Western Union: Small Boats
2007
Portrait in Blue: Essex Hemphill
2005
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2005
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Fantôme Afrique
2005
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2004
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True North
2004
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Lost Boundaries
2003
Baltimore
2003
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BaadAsssss Cinema
2002
Paradise Omeros
2002
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Three
2000
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Vagabondia
2000
Long Road to Mazatlán
1999
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Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
1996
Black Nations/Queer Nations?
1995
The Darker Side of Black
1994
The Attendant
1993
Black and White in Colour
1992
Daddy and the Muscle Academy
1991
Young Soul Rebels
1991
Looking for Langston
1989
This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement
1988
Reframing AIDS
1987
The Passion of Remembrance
1986
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Territories
1984
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Gay Black Group
1983
Who Killed Colin Roach?
1983
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