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Isaac Julien

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
10

Gender
Male

Birthday
February 21, 1960 (66 years old)

Place of Birth
East End, London, England, UK

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.

Known For

Directing

2025Once Again... (Statues Never Die)...Director
2022Once Again... (Statues Never Die)...Director
2021Encore No.1 Paradise Omeros...Director
201930/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing...Director
2019Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous Entanglement...Director
2019Lessons of the Hour...Director
2013Playtime...Director
2010Ten Thousand Waves...Director
2008Derek...Director
2007Western Union: Small Boats...Director
2005Portrait in Blue: Essex Hemphill...Director
2005Fantôme Afrique...Director
2005Fantôme Creole...Director
2004Encore II (Radioactive)...Director
2004True North...Director
2003Lost Boundaries...Director
2003Baltimore...Director
2002BaadAsssss Cinema...Director
2002Paradise Omeros...Director
2000Three...Director
2000Vagabondia...Director
1999Long Road to Mazatlán...Director
1996Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask...Director
1994The Darker Side of Black...Director
1993The Attendant...Director
1992Black and White in Colour...Director
1991Young Soul Rebels...Director
1989Looking for Langston...Director
1989Dreaming Rivers...Assistant Director
1988This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement...Director
1986The Passion of Remembrance...Director
1984Territories...Director
1983Who Killed Colin Roach?...Director

Writing

2022Once Again... (Statues Never Die)...Writer
2019Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous Entanglement...Screenplay
2002Paradise Omeros...Writer
1996Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask...Screenplay
1993Significant (Br)other...Novel
1991Young Soul Rebels...Writer
1989Looking for Langston...Screenplay
1986The Passion of Remembrance...Writer

Production

2008Derek...Executive Producer
1988This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement...Producer

Acting

2024Scala!!!as Self
2019Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Artas
2017Queer as Artas Self
2003Lost Boundariesas
1995Black Nations/Queer Nations?as Self - Panelist
1992Black and White in Colouras Self
1991Daddy and the Muscle Academyas Himself
1988This Is Not an AIDS Advertisementas
1987Reframing AIDSas Himself
1983Gay Black Groupas Self