Isaac Julien
Born: 1960-02-21 in East End, London, England, UK
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2025
- Once Again... (Statues Never Die) ... (Director)
2024
- Scala!!! as Self
2022
- Once Again... (Statues Never Die) ... (Director)
2021
- Encore No.1 Paradise Omeros ... (Director)
2019
- 30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing ... (Director)
- Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art
- Lessons of the Hour ... (Director)
- Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous Entanglement ... (Director)
2017
- Queer as Art as Self
2013
- Playtime ... (Director)
2010
- Ten Thousand Waves ... (Director)
2008
- Derek ... (Director)
2007
- Western Union: Small Boats ... (Director)
2005
- Fantôme Afrique ... (Director)
- Portrait in Blue: Essex Hemphill ... (Director)
- Fantôme Creole ... (Director)
2004
- True North ... (Director)
- Encore II (Radioactive) ... (Director)
2003
- Lost Boundaries
- Baltimore ... (Director)
2002
- BaadAsssss Cinema ... (Director)
- Paradise Omeros ... (Director)
2000
- Vagabondia ... (Director)
- Three ... (Director)
1999
- Long Road to Mazatlán ... (Director)
1996
- Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask ... (Director)
1995
- Black Nations/Queer Nations? as Self - Panelist
1994
- The Darker Side of Black ... (Director)
1993
- The Attendant ... (Director)
- Significant (Br)other ... (Novel)
1992
- Black and White in Colour as Self
1991
- Daddy and the Muscle Academy as Himself
- Young Soul Rebels ... (Director)
1989
- Looking for Langston ... (Director)
- Dreaming Rivers ... (Assistant Director)
1987
- Reframing AIDS as Himself
1986
- The Passion of Remembrance ... (Director)
1984
- Territories ... (Director)
1983
- Who Killed Colin Roach? ... (Director)
- Gay Black Group as Self