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.
Black and White in Colour
(Self)
Lost Boundaries
Scala!!!
(Self)
Reframing AIDS
(Himself)
Queer as Art
(Self)
Daddy and the Muscle Academy
(Himself)
Gay Black Group
(Self)
This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement
Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art
Black Nations/Queer Nations?
(Self - Panelist)
Young Soul Rebels
(Director)
Looking for Langston
(Director)
Looking for Langston
(Screenplay)
Encore No.1 Paradise Omeros
(Director)
BaadAsssss Cinema
(Director)
Derek
(Director)
Lost Boundaries
(Director)
The Attendant
(Director)
Fantôme Creole
(Director)
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
(Director)
Vagabondia
(Director)
Long Road to Mazatlán
(Director)
Paradise Omeros
(Director)
The Passion of Remembrance
(Director)
This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement
(Director)
Once Again... (Statues Never Die)
(Director)
Once Again... (Statues Never Die)
(Writer)
Dreaming Rivers
(Assistant Director)
Territories
(Director)
Portrait in Blue: Essex Hemphill
(Director)
Significant (Br)other
(Novel)
Fantôme Afrique
(Director)
Ten Thousand Waves
(Director)
Western Union: Small Boats
(Director)
Young Soul Rebels
(Writer)
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
(Screenplay)
Encore II (Radioactive)
(Director)
Playtime
(Director)
Derek
(Executive Producer)
Black and White in Colour
(Director)
The Darker Side of Black
(Director)
Lessons of the Hour
(Director)
Paradise Omeros
(Writer)
True North
(Director)
Baltimore
(Director)
This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement
(Producer)
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
(Director)
Three
(Director)
The Passion of Remembrance
(Writer)
Who Killed Colin Roach?
(Director)
Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvelous Entanglement
(Director)