Person
Isaac Julien
Directing · Born 1960-02-21 · 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 Film Festival.
Known for
Fantôme Afrique
Director
Ten Thousand Waves
Director
Playtime
Director
Territories
Director
Lost Boundaries
2003
BaadAsssss Cinema
Director
Scala!!!
Self
The Passion of Remembrance
Director
Daddy and the Muscle Academy
Himself
Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous Entanglement
Director
Filmography
- 2025Once Again... (Statues Never Die)Director
- 2024Scala!!!Self
- 2022Once Again... (Statues Never Die)Director
- 2021Encore No.1 Paradise OmerosDirector
- 201930/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand ReleasingDirector
- 2019Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art
- 2019Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous EntanglementDirector
- 2019Lessons of the HourDirector
- 2017Queer as ArtSelf
- 2013PlaytimeDirector
- 2010Ten Thousand WavesDirector
- 2008DerekDirector
- 2007Western Union: Small BoatsDirector
- 2005Portrait in Blue: Essex HemphillDirector
- 2005Fantôme CreoleDirector
- 2005Fantôme AfriqueDirector
- 2004Encore II (Radioactive)Director
- 2004True NorthDirector
- 2003Lost Boundaries
- 2003BaltimoreDirector
- 2002BaadAsssss CinemaDirector
- 2002Paradise OmerosDirector
- 2000ThreeDirector
- 2000VagabondiaDirector
- 1999Long Road to MazatlánDirector
- 1996Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White MaskDirector
- 1995Black Nations/Queer Nations?Self - Panelist
- 1994The Darker Side of BlackDirector
- 1993The AttendantDirector
- 1993Significant (Br)otherNovel
- 1992Black and White in ColourSelf
- 1991Daddy and the Muscle AcademyHimself
- 1991Young Soul RebelsDirector
- 1989Looking for LangstonDirector
- 1989Dreaming RiversAssistant Director
- 1988This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement
- 1987Reframing AIDSHimself
- 1986The Passion of RemembranceDirector
- 1984TerritoriesDirector
- 1983Gay Black GroupSelf
- 1983Who Killed Colin Roach?Director
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