Isaac Julien
- Directing
- February 21, 1960 · 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
Filmography
- Once Again... (Statues Never Die) · Director
- Scala!!! · Self
- Once Again... (Statues Never Die) · Director, Writer
- Encore No.1 Paradise Omeros · Director
- 30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing · Director
- Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art
- Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous Entanglement · Director, Screenplay
- Lessons of the Hour · Director
- Queer as Art · Self
- Playtime · Director
- Ten Thousand Waves · Director
- Derek · Director, Executive producer
- Western Union: Small Boats · Director
- Portrait in Blue: Essex Hemphill · Director
- Fantôme Creole · Director
- Fantôme Afrique · Director
- Encore II (Radioactive) · Director
- True North · Director
- Lost Boundaries · Director
- Baltimore · Director
- BaadAsssss Cinema · Director
- Paradise Omeros · Director, Writer
- Three · Director
- Vagabondia · Director
- Long Road to Mazatlán · Director
- Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask · Director, Screenplay
- Black Nations/Queer Nations? · Self
- The Darker Side of Black · Director
- The Attendant · Director
- Significant (Br)other · Novel
- Black and White in Colour · Self, Director
- Daddy and the Muscle Academy · Self
- Young Soul Rebels · Director, Writer
- Looking for Langston · Director, Screenplay
- Dreaming Rivers · Assistant Director
- This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement · Director, Producer
- Reframing AIDS · Self
- The Passion of Remembrance · Director, Writer
- Territories · Director
- Gay Black Group · Self
- Who Killed Colin Roach? · Director