Isaac Julien
Known for: Directing
Born: February 21, 1960
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
41 movies · 0 TV shows, newest first
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Once Again... (Statues Never Die)
2025
7.8
Scala!!!
2024
4.5
Once Again... (Statues Never Die)
2022
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Encore No.1 Paradise Omeros
2021
5.3
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019
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Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art
2019
8.5
Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous Entanglement
2019
8.0
Lessons of the Hour
2019
3.3
Queer as Art
2017
1.0
Playtime
2013
7.5
Ten Thousand Waves
2010
5.5
Derek
2008
5.0
Western Union: Small Boats
2007
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Portrait in Blue: Essex Hemphill
2005NR
Fantôme Creole
2005
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Fantôme Afrique
2005NR
Encore II (Radioactive)
2004
8.0
True North
2004
6.0
Lost Boundaries
2003
7.0
Baltimore
2003
6.0
BaadAsssss Cinema
2002
9.0
Paradise Omeros
2002
9.0
Three
2000
6.0
Vagabondia
20007.0
Long Road to Mazatlán
1999
7.2
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
1996
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Black Nations/Queer Nations?
1995
2.8
The Darker Side of Black
1994
4.4
The Attendant
19933.0
Significant (Br)other
1993
10.0
Black and White in Colour
1992
5.7
Daddy and the Muscle Academy
1991
5.4
Young Soul Rebels
1991
5.1
Looking for Langston
1989
9.0
Dreaming Rivers
1989
3.8
This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement
1988
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Reframing AIDS
1987
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The Passion of Remembrance
1986
9.0
Territories
1984
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Gay Black Group
1983
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Who Killed Colin Roach?
1983