Isaac Julien
Directing
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.
As actor 10
On the crew 34
Fantôme Afrique
2005
Territories
1984
Lost Boundaries
2003
Playtime
2013
Vagabondia
2000
Three
2000
Baltimore
2003
Fantôme Creole
2005
The Passion of Remembrance
1986
Young Soul Rebels
1991
Ten Thousand Waves
2010
True North
2004
Derek
2008
Paradise Omeros
2002
BaadAsssss Cinema
2002
Once Again... (Statues Never Die)
2022
This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement
1988
Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous Entanglement
2019
Western Union: Small Boats
2007
Once Again... (Statues Never Die)
2025
Lessons of the Hour
2019
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
1996
Portrait in Blue: Essex Hemphill
2005
Encore II (Radioactive)
2004
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019
Significant (Br)other
1993
Encore No.1 Paradise Omeros
2021
Looking for Langston
1989
The Darker Side of Black
1994
Long Road to Mazatlán
1999
Dreaming Rivers
1989
Black and White in Colour
1992
Who Killed Colin Roach?
1983
The Attendant
1993