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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.

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Directing

1983

[ ] Who Killed Colin Roach? (Director)

1984

[ ] Territories (Director)

1986

[ ] The Passion of Remembrance (Director)

1988

[ ] This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement (Director)

1989

[ ] Looking for Langston (Director)
[ ] Dreaming Rivers (Assistant Director)

1991

[ ] Young Soul Rebels (Director)

1992

[ ] Black and White in Colour (Director)

1993

[ ] The Attendant (Director)

1994

[ ] The Darker Side of Black (Director)

1996

[ ] Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask (Director)

1999

[ ] Long Road to Mazatlán (Director)

2000

[ ] Vagabondia (Director)
[ ] Three (Director)

2002

[ ] BaadAsssss Cinema (Director)
[ ] Paradise Omeros (Director)

2003

[ ] Lost Boundaries (Director)
[ ] Baltimore (Director)

2004

[ ] Encore II (Radioactive) (Director)
[ ] True North (Director)

2005

[ ] Fantôme Creole (Director)
[ ] Portrait in Blue: Essex Hemphill (Director)
[ ] Fantôme Afrique (Director)

2007

[ ] Western Union: Small Boats (Director)

2008

[ ] Derek (Director)

2010

[ ] Ten Thousand Waves (Director)

2013

[ ] Playtime (Director)

2019

[ ] Lessons of the Hour (Director)
[ ] 30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing (Director)
[ ] Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous Entanglement (Director)

2021

[ ] Encore No.1 Paradise Omeros (Director)

2022

[ ] Once Again... (Statues Never Die) (Director)

2025

[ ] Once Again... (Statues Never Die) (Director)

Writing

1986

[ ] The Passion of Remembrance (Writer)

1989

[ ] Looking for Langston (Screenplay)

1991

[ ] Young Soul Rebels (Writer)

1993

[ ] Significant (Br)other (Novel)

1996

[ ] Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask (Screenplay)

2002

[ ] Paradise Omeros (Writer)

2019

[ ] Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous Entanglement (Screenplay)

2022

[ ] Once Again... (Statues Never Die) (Writer)

Production

1988

[ ] This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement (Producer)

2008

[ ] Derek (Executive Producer)

Actor

1983

[ ] Gay Black Group (Self)

1987

[ ] Reframing AIDS (Himself)

1988

[ ] This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement (????)

1991

[ ] Daddy and the Muscle Academy (Himself)

1992

[ ] Black and White in Colour (Self)

1995

[ ] Black Nations/Queer Nations? (Self - Panelist)

2003

[ ] Lost Boundaries (????)

2017

[ ] Queer as Art (Self)

2019

[ ] Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art (????)

2024

[ ] Scala!!! (Self)