Isaac Julien
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- 21 February 1960 · 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.
Known for
Directing 33
- 2025Once Again... (Statues Never Die) · director
- 2022Once Again... (Statues Never Die) · director
- 2021Encore No.1 Paradise Omeros · director
- 201930/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing · director
- 2019Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous Entanglement · director
- 2019Lessons of the Hour · director
- 2013Playtime · director
- 2010Ten Thousand Waves · director
- 2008Derek · director
- 2007Western Union: Small Boats · director
- 2005Portrait in Blue: Essex Hemphill · director
- 2005Fantôme Creole · director
- 2005Fantôme Afrique · director
- 2004True North · director
- 2004Encore II (Radioactive) · director
- 2003Baltimore · director
- 2003Lost Boundaries · director
- 2002BaadAsssss Cinema · director
- 2002Paradise Omeros · director
- 2000Three · director
- 2000Vagabondia · director
- 1999Long Road to Mazatlán · director
- 1996Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask · director
- 1994The Darker Side of Black · director
- 1993The Attendant · director
- 1992Black and White in Colour · director
- 1991Young Soul Rebels · director
- 1989Looking for Langston · director
- 1989Dreaming Rivers · assistant director
- 1988This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement · director
- 1986The Passion of Remembrance · director
- 1984Territories · director
- 1983Who Killed Colin Roach? · director
Acting 10
- 2024Scala!!! as Self
- 2019Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art
- 2017Queer as Art as Self
- 2003Lost Boundaries
- 1995Black Nations/Queer Nations? as Self - Panelist
- 1992Black and White in Colour as Self
- 1991Daddy and the Muscle Academy as Himself
- 1988This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement
- 1987Reframing AIDS as Himself
- 1983Gay Black Group as Self
Writing 8
- 2022Once Again... (Statues Never Die) · writer
- 2019Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous Entanglement · screenplay
- 2002Paradise Omeros · writer
- 1996Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask · screenplay
- 1993Significant (Br)other · novel
- 1991Young Soul Rebels · writer
- 1989Looking for Langston · screenplay
- 1986The Passion of Remembrance · writer
Production 2
- 2008Derek · executive producer
- 1988This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement · producer