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.
Young Soul Rebels
Looking for Langston
Daddy and the Muscle Academy
BaadAsssss Cinema
Derek
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
The Attendant
The Passion of Remembrance
Paradise Omeros
Vagabondia
Dreaming Rivers
Long Road to Mazatlán
This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement
Territories
Portrait in Blue: Essex Hemphill
Fantôme Afrique
Western Union: Small Boats
Ten Thousand WavesEncore II (Radioactive)
Black Nations/Queer Nations?
