Isaac Julien
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.
Personal Details
Movies (41)
Once Again... (Statues Never Die)
Director (Directing)
2025
Scala!!!
as Self
2024
Once Again... (Statues Never Die)
Director (Directing)
2022
Encore No.1 Paradise Omeros
Director (Directing)
2021
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
Director (Directing)
2019
Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art
2019
Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous Entanglement
Director (Directing)
2019
Lessons of the Hour
Director (Directing)
2019
Queer as Art
as Self
2017
Playtime
Director (Directing)
2013
Ten Thousand Waves
Director (Directing)
2010
Derek
Director (Directing)
2008
Western Union: Small Boats
Director (Directing)
2007
Portrait in Blue: Essex Hemphill
Director (Directing)
2005
Fantôme Creole
Director (Directing)
2005
Fantôme Afrique
Director (Directing)
2005
Encore II (Radioactive)
Director (Directing)
2004
True North
Director (Directing)
2004
Lost Boundaries
2003
Baltimore
Director (Directing)
2003
BaadAsssss Cinema
Director (Directing)
2002
Paradise Omeros
Director (Directing)
2002
Three
Director (Directing)
2000
Vagabondia
Director (Directing)
2000
Long Road to Mazatlán
Director (Directing)
1999
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
Director (Directing)
1996
Black Nations/Queer Nations?
as Self - Panelist
1995
The Darker Side of Black
Director (Directing)
1994
The Attendant
Director (Directing)
1993
Significant (Br)other
Novel (Writing)
1993
Black and White in Colour
as Self
1992
Daddy and the Muscle Academy
as Himself
1991
Young Soul Rebels
Director (Directing)
1991
Looking for Langston
Director (Directing)
1989
Dreaming Rivers
Assistant Director (Directing)
1989
This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement
1988
Reframing AIDS
as Himself
1987
The Passion of Remembrance
Director (Directing)
1986
Territories
Director (Directing)
1984
Gay Black Group
as Self
1983
Who Killed Colin Roach?
Director (Directing)
1983