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Isaac Julien

Isaac Julien

Directing·February 21, 196066 years old·East End, London, England, UK

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.

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Filmography · 41
2025Once Again... (Statues Never Die)2024Scala!!!2022Once Again... (Statues Never Die)2021Encore No.1 Paradise Omeros201930/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing2019Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art2019Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous Entanglement2019Lessons of the Hour2017Queer as Art2013Playtime2010Ten Thousand Waves2008Derek2007Western Union: Small Boats2005Portrait in Blue: Essex Hemphill2005Fantôme Creole2005Fantôme Afrique2004Encore II (Radioactive)2004True North2003Lost Boundaries2003Baltimore2002BaadAsssss Cinema2002Paradise Omeros2000Three2000Vagabondia1999Long Road to Mazatlán1996Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask1995Black Nations/Queer Nations?1994The Darker Side of Black1993The Attendant1993Significant (Br)other1992Black and White in Colour1991Daddy and the Muscle Academy1991Young Soul Rebels1989Looking for Langston1989Dreaming Rivers1988This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement1987Reframing AIDS1986The Passion of Remembrance1984Territories1983Gay Black Group1983Who Killed Colin Roach?
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