Isaac Julien

Isaac Julien

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.

  • Title: Isaac Julien
  • Popularity: 3.493
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1960-02-21
  • Place of Birth: East End, London, England, UK
  • Homepage: https://www.isaacjulien.com/
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Isaac Julien Movies

  • 1992
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    Black and White in Colour

    Black and White in Colour

    1 1992 HD

    A two part documentary that details the contribution of black and Asian people to television history from the birth of television in 1936 to 1992....

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  • 2003
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    Lost Boundaries

    Lost Boundaries

    6 2003 HD

    Lost Boundaries is comprised of footage shot by Julien on location, in England in the summer of 1985, during the making of the Sankofa film and video...

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  • 2024
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    Scala!!!

    Scala!!!

    8.6 2024 HD

    This feature-length big screen documentary tells the riotous inside story of the infamous sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll repertory cinema which...

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  • 1987
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    Reframing AIDS

    Reframing AIDS

    1 1987 HD

    Through a series of interviews with leading British AIDS activists and cultural theorists, this documentary investigates the way in which AIDS has...

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  • 2017
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    Queer as Art

    Queer as Art

    4 2017 HD

    Documentary celebrating the LGBTQ contribution to the arts in Britain in the 50 years since decriminalisation. It features interviews with leading...

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  • 1991
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    Daddy and the Muscle Academy

    Daddy and the Muscle Academy

    5.6 1991 HD

    Tom of Finland is one of the gay world's few authentic icons. His drawings have had an enormous influence on gay identity. Tom's ultimate leather men...

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  • 1983
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    Gay Black Group

    Gay Black Group

    1 1983 HD

    The formation of the Gay Black Group was a landmark in gay black history. Meeting at Gay's the Word, a bookshop in Bloomsbury, London, it provided a...

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  • 1988
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    This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement

    This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement

    3.5 1988 HD

    This highly stylized short asserts sexual desire over fear in gay romantic relationships.

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  • 2019
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    Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art

    Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art

    1 2019 HD

    Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves) explores Video Art, revealing how different generations ‘hacked’ the tools of television to pioneer new ways of...

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  • 1995
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    Black Nations/Queer Nations?

    Black Nations/Queer Nations?

    1 1995 HD

    This is an experimental documentary chronicling the March 1995 groundbreaking conference on lesbian and gay sexualities in the African diaspora. The...

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  • 1991
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    Young Soul Rebels

    Young Soul Rebels

    5 1991 HD

    Two disc jockeys have a friend's murder to solve in the fringe-group melting pot of 1977 London.

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  • 1989
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    Looking for Langston

    Looking for Langston

    5.2 1989 HD

    A black and white, fantasy-like recreation of high-society gay men during the Harlem Renaissance, with archival footage and photographs intercut with...

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  • 1989
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    Looking for Langston

    Looking for Langston

    5.2 1989 HD

    A black and white, fantasy-like recreation of high-society gay men during the Harlem Renaissance, with archival footage and photographs intercut with...

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  • 2021
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    Encore No.1 Paradise Omeros

    Encore No.1 Paradise Omeros

    1 2021 HD

    Isaac Julien's contribution to Documenta Platform6 in memory of Okwui Enwezor.

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  • 2002
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    BaadAsssss Cinema

    BaadAsssss Cinema

    5.976 2002 HD

    With archive film clips and interviews, this brief look at a frequently overlooked historical period of filmmaking acts as an introduction rather...

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  • 2008
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    Derek

    Derek

    5.7 2008 HD

    Derek, in chronological order, records the work and life that stands at the foot of Derek Jarman's humour and spirit of being an artist. The...

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  • 2003
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    Lost Boundaries

    Lost Boundaries

    6 2003 HD

    Lost Boundaries is comprised of footage shot by Julien on location, in England in the summer of 1985, during the making of the Sankofa film and video...

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  • 1993
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    The Attendant

    The Attendant

    4.4 1993 HD

    Memory mixes with desire as a museum attendant is caught up in sado-masochistic fantasies inspired by a 19th century painting of slaves in chains...

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  • 2005
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    Fantôme Creole

    Fantôme Creole

    1 2005 HD

    Fantôme Créole is a four-screen film installation that juxtaposes Arctic and African landscapes as it combines two films: True North,...

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  • 1996
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    Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask

    Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask

    6.9 1996 HD

    Explores the life and work of the psychoanalytic theorist and activist Frantz Fanon who was born in Martinique, educated in Paris and worked in...

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  • 2000
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    Vagabondia

    Vagabondia

    6 2000 HD

    A black female conservator imagines the buried stories and the hidden histories within the museum's cornucopia of colonial plunder. Filmed with...

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  • 1999
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    Long Road to Mazatlán

    Long Road to Mazatlán

    1 1999 HD

    Shot in Texas, Isaac Julien's Turner Prize nominated film installation Long Road to Mazatlán reflects upon the construction of masculinity...

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  • 1986
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    The Passion of Remembrance

    The Passion of Remembrance

    1 1986 HD

    Co-directed by Blackwood and Julien, the first full-length feature film by Sankofa Film and Video offers a radical and necessary interrogation into...

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  • 2002
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    Paradise Omeros

    Paradise Omeros

    1 2002 HD

    Paradise Omeros delves into the fantasies and feelings of "creoleness" - the mixed language, the hybrid mental states and the territorial...

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  • 1988
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    This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement

    This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement

    3.5 1988 HD

    This highly stylized short asserts sexual desire over fear in gay romantic relationships.

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  • 2022
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    Once Again... (Statues Never Die)

    Once Again... (Statues Never Die)

    4.5 2022 HD

    An immersive installation by the artist and filmmaker. "Coda" to Looking for Langston.

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  • 2022
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    Once Again... (Statues Never Die)

    Once Again... (Statues Never Die)

    4.5 2022 HD

    An immersive installation by the artist and filmmaker. "Coda" to Looking for Langston.

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  • 1989
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    Dreaming Rivers

    Dreaming Rivers

    1 1989 HD

    A bittersweet and nostalgic short drama illustrating the spirit of modern families touched by the experience of migration. Miss T., from the...

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  • 1984
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    Territories

    Territories

    1 1984 HD

    Territories is an experimental documentary about the Notting Hill Carnival. It locates the event within the struggle between white authority and...

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  • 2005
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    Portrait in Blue: Essex Hemphill

    Portrait in Blue: Essex Hemphill

    1 2005 HD

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  • 1993
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    Significant (Br)other

    Significant (Br)other

    1 1993 HD

    Erotic images of Black men with voice over text by Isaac Julien and Kobena Mercer question the objectification of the Black male image by white...

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  • 2005
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    Fantôme Afrique

    Fantôme Afrique

    1 2005 HD

    Fantôme Afrique, weaves cinematic and architectural references through the rich imagery of urban Ouagadougou, the centre for cinema in Africa,...

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  • 2007
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    Western Union: Small Boats

    Western Union: Small Boats

    5 2007 HD

    Isaac Julien’s 2007 multi-screen installation Western Union Small Boats is a work where individual voyages, journeys and travel are explored...

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  • 2010
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    Ten Thousand Waves

    Ten Thousand Waves

    7.5 2010 HD

    TEN THOUSAND WAVES is a 9-screen installation shot on location in China. The work poetically weaves together stories linking China’s ancient...

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  • 1991
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    Young Soul Rebels

    Young Soul Rebels

    5 1991 HD

    Two disc jockeys have a friend's murder to solve in the fringe-group melting pot of 1977 London.

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  • 1996
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    Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask

    Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask

    6.9 1996 HD

    Explores the life and work of the psychoanalytic theorist and activist Frantz Fanon who was born in Martinique, educated in Paris and worked in...

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  • 2004
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    Encore II (Radioactive)

    Encore II (Radioactive)

    1 2004 HD

    Encore II (Radioactive) is a short film study inspired by a character from the writings of Octavia Butler, an African American science fiction...

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  • 2013
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    Playtime

    Playtime

    1 2013 HD

    Playtime’s cosmopolitan spectacle, presented in a kaleidoscopic montage across seven large screens, interconnects the lives of its archetypical...

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  • 2008
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    Derek

    Derek

    5.7 2008 HD

    Derek, in chronological order, records the work and life that stands at the foot of Derek Jarman's humour and spirit of being an artist. The...

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  • 1992
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    Black and White in Colour

    Black and White in Colour

    1 1992 HD

    A two part documentary that details the contribution of black and Asian people to television history from the birth of television in 1936 to 1992....

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  • 1994
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    The Darker Side of Black

    The Darker Side of Black

    1 1994 HD

    An exploration of the homophobia expressed by reggae and rap artists againts gays and lesbians. Inludes interviews with rappers Shabba Ranks and Buju...

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  • 2019
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    Lessons of the Hour

    Lessons of the Hour

    8 2019 HD

    Isaac Julien's visionary film Lessons of the Hour explores the incomparable achievements of Frederick Douglass, America’s foremost abolitionist...

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  • 2004
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    True North

    True North

    1 2004 HD

    Loosely inspired by the story of the black American explorer, Matthew Henson (1866-1955) who accompanied Robert Peary and was one of the first people...

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  • 2002
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    Paradise Omeros

    Paradise Omeros

    1 2002 HD

    Paradise Omeros delves into the fantasies and feelings of "creoleness" - the mixed language, the hybrid mental states and the territorial...

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  • 2003
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    Baltimore

    Baltimore

    1 2003 HD

    Baltimore deals with the cinematization of video art, on the one hand, and a queering and racing of the museum, on the other. The film installation...

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  • 1988
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    This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement

    This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement

    3.5 1988 HD

    This highly stylized short asserts sexual desire over fear in gay romantic relationships.

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  • 2019
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    30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing

    30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing

    5 2019 HD

    Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company’s indelible contribution to independent cinema over...

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  • 2000
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    Three

    Three

    1 2000 HD

    An experimental dance piece revealing the complex dynamics between two dancers and another woman.

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  • 1986
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    The Passion of Remembrance

    The Passion of Remembrance

    1 1986 HD

    Co-directed by Blackwood and Julien, the first full-length feature film by Sankofa Film and Video offers a radical and necessary interrogation into...

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  • 1983
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    Who Killed Colin Roach?

    Who Killed Colin Roach?

    1 1983 HD

    Who Killed Colin Roach? is Isaac Julien's first film, which reflects upon the death of Colin Roach, a 23 year old who was shot at the entrance of a...

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  • 2020
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    Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvelous Entanglement

    Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvelous Entanglement

    7 2020 HD

    The multiple screen installation and photographic series A Marvellous Entanglement (2019) traverses a collection of Lina Bo Bardi’s most iconic...

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