Directing

Isaac Julien

Born 1960-02-21

East End, London, England, UK

Department: 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.

2003

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Filmography & Credits

Complete career catalog (53 titles)

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