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.
Acting (10 movies)
Black and White in Colour
1992
Lost Boundaries
2003
Scala!!!
2024
Reframing AIDS
1987
Queer as Art
2017
Daddy and the Muscle Academy
1991
Gay Black Group
1983
This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement
1988
Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art
2019
Black Nations/Queer Nations?
1995
Directing (32 movies)
Young Soul Rebels
1991
Looking for Langston
1989
Encore No.1 Paradise Omeros
2021
BaadAsssss Cinema
2002
Derek
2008
Lost Boundaries
2003
The Attendant
1993
Fantôme Creole
2005
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
1996
Vagabondia
2000
Long Road to Mazatlán
1999
Paradise Omeros
2002
The Passion of Remembrance
1986
This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement
1988
Once Again... (Statues Never Die)
2022
Territories
1984
Portrait in Blue: Essex Hemphill
2005
Fantôme Afrique
2005
Ten Thousand Waves
2010
Western Union: Small Boats
2007
Encore II (Radioactive)
2004
Playtime
2013
Black and White in Colour
1992
The Darker Side of Black
1994
Lessons of the Hour
2019
True North
2004
Baltimore
2003
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019
Three
2000
Who Killed Colin Roach?
1983
Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous Entanglement
2019
Once Again... (Statues Never Die)
2025
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| The Passion of Remembrance | 1986 | Writer |
| This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement | 1988 | Producer |
| Looking for Langston | 1989 | Screenplay |
| Young Soul Rebels | 1991 | Writer |
| Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask | 1996 | Screenplay |
| Paradise Omeros | 2002 | Writer |
| Derek | 2008 | Executive Producer |
| Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous Entanglement | 2019 | Screenplay |
| Once Again... (Statues Never Die) | 2022 | Writer |