Isaac Julien
Director · Actor · WriterFilmmaker 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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KNOWN FOR
FILMOGRAPHY
ACTOR10
Scala!!!
2024
Self
Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art
2019
Queer as Art
2017
Self
Lost Boundaries
2003
Black Nations/Queer Nations?
1995
Self - Panelist
Black and White in Colour
1992
Self
Daddy and the Muscle Academy
1991
Himself
This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement
1988
Reframing AIDS
1987
Himself
Gay Black Group
1983
Self
DIRECTOR33
Once Again... (Statues Never Die)
2025
Director
Once Again... (Statues Never Die)
2022
Director
Encore No.1 Paradise Omeros
2021
Director
Lessons of the Hour
2019
Director
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019
Director
Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous Entanglement
2019
Director
Playtime
2013
Director
Ten Thousand Waves
2010
Director
Derek
2008
Director
Western Union: Small Boats
2007
Director
- Fantôme Creole
Fantôme Creole
2005
Director
Portrait in Blue: Essex Hemphill
2005
Director
Fantôme Afrique
2005
Director
- Encore II (Radioactive)
Encore II (Radioactive)
2004
Director
True North
2004
Director
Lost Boundaries
2003
Director
Baltimore
2003
Director
BaadAsssss Cinema
2002
Director
Paradise Omeros
2002
Director
Vagabondia
2000
Director
Three
2000
Director
- Long Road to Mazatlán
Long Road to Mazatlán
1999
Director
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
1996
Director
The Darker Side of Black
1994
Director
The Attendant
1993
Director
Black and White in Colour
1992
Director
Young Soul Rebels
1991
Director
Looking for Langston
1989
Director
Dreaming Rivers
1989
Assistant Director
This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement
1988
Director
The Passion of Remembrance
1986
Director
Territories
1984
Director
Who Killed Colin Roach?
1983
Director
WRITER8
Once Again... (Statues Never Die)
2022
Writer
Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous Entanglement
2019
Screenplay
Paradise Omeros
2002
Writer
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
1996
Screenplay
- Significant (Br)other
Significant (Br)other
1993
Novel
Young Soul Rebels
1991
Writer
Looking for Langston
1989
Screenplay
The Passion of Remembrance
1986
Writer
