Isaac Julien
Director
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.
As Director
BaadAsssss Cinema
2002
Looking for Langston
1989
Derek
2008
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
1996
The Attendant
1993
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019
This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement
1988
The Darker Side of Black
1994
Once Again... (Statues Never Die)
2022
Ten Thousand Waves
2010
Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous Entanglement
2019Filmography
Daddy and the Muscle Academy
as Himself 1991
Scala!!!
as Self 2024
Queer as Art
as Self 2017
This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement
1988
Lost Boundaries
2003
Black and White in Colour
as Self 1992
Reframing AIDS
as Himself 1987
Gay Black Group
as Self 1983
Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art
2019