
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 |