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.
Filmography
Cast Credits
Scala!!!
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2024
Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art
Character:
MOVIE • 2019
Queer as Art
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2017
Lost Boundaries
Character:
MOVIE • 2003
Black Nations/Queer Nations?
Character: Self - Panelist
MOVIE • 1995
Black and White in Colour
Character: Self
MOVIE • 1992
Daddy and the Muscle Academy
Character: Himself
MOVIE • 1991
This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement
Character:
MOVIE • 1988
Reframing AIDS
Character: Himself
MOVIE • 1987
Gay Black Group
Character: Self
MOVIE • 1983
Crew
Crew Credits
Once Again... (Statues Never Die)
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2025
Once Again... (Statues Never Die)
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2022
Once Again... (Statues Never Die)
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 2022
Encore No.1 Paradise Omeros
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2021
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2019
Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous Entanglement
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2019
Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous Entanglement
Role: Screenplay
MOVIE • 2019
Lessons of the Hour
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2019
Playtime
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2013
Ten Thousand Waves
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2010
Derek
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2008
Derek
Role: Executive Producer
MOVIE • 2008
Western Union: Small Boats
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2007
Portrait in Blue: Essex Hemphill
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2005
Fantôme Creole
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2005
Fantôme Afrique
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2005
Encore II (Radioactive)
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2004
True North
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2004
Lost Boundaries
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2003
Baltimore
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2003