Isaac Julien

Isaac Julien

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.

On screen

  • Scala!!!
  • Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art
  • Queer as Art
  • Lost Boundaries
  • Black Nations/Queer Nations?
  • Black and White in Colour
  • Daddy and the Muscle Academy
  • This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement
  • Reframing AIDS
  • Gay Black Group

Behind the camera

  • Once Again... (Statues Never Die)
  • Once Again... (Statues Never Die)
  • Encore No.1 Paradise Omeros
  • Lessons of the Hour
  • 30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
  • Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous Entanglement
  • 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
  • Vagabondia
  • Three
  • Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
  • The Darker Side of Black
  • The Attendant
  • Black and White in Colour
  • Young Soul Rebels
  • Looking for Langston
  • This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement
  • The Passion of Remembrance
  • Territories
  • Who Killed Colin Roach?

Pick up exactly where you left off.

Tick an episode and the rest sorts itself out: what is waiting tonight, what airs tomorrow, what you abandoned two years ago. And under every episode, what other people made of it, without ever spoiling what comes next.

Create an account

Free, no ads.

Isaac Julien · moviemoood