
Isaac Julien
Directing
1960-02-21 · East End, London, England, UK
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.
Filmography

Once Again... (Statues Never Die)
2025 · Movie

Scala!!!
2024 · Movie

Once Again... (Statues Never Die)
2022 · Movie

Encore No.1 Paradise Omeros
2021 · Movie

30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019 · Movie

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

Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous Entanglement
2019 · Movie

Lessons of the Hour
2019 · Movie

Queer as Art
2017 · Movie

Playtime
2013 · Movie

Ten Thousand Waves
2010 · Movie

Derek
2008 · Movie

Western Union: Small Boats
2007 · Movie

Portrait in Blue: Essex Hemphill
2005 · Movie

Fantôme Afrique
2005 · Movie
Fantôme Creole
2005 · Movie

True North
2004 · Movie
Encore II (Radioactive)
2004 · Movie

Lost Boundaries
2003 · Movie

Baltimore
2003 · Movie

BaadAsssss Cinema
2002 · Movie

Paradise Omeros
2002 · Movie

Three
2000 · Movie

Vagabondia
2000 · Movie
Long Road to Mazatlán
1999 · Movie

Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
1996 · Movie

Black Nations/Queer Nations?
1995 · Movie

The Darker Side of Black
1994 · Movie

The Attendant
1993 · Movie
Significant (Br)other
1993 · Movie

Black and White in Colour
1992 · Movie

Daddy and the Muscle Academy
1991 · Movie

Young Soul Rebels
1991 · Movie

Looking for Langston
1989 · Movie

Dreaming Rivers
1989 · Movie

This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement
1988 · Movie

Reframing AIDS
1987 · Movie

The Passion of Remembrance
1986 · Movie

Territories
1984 · Movie

Gay Black Group
1983 · Movie

Who Killed Colin Roach?
1983 · Movie