Isaac Julien
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
- Born
- 1960-02-21 · East End, London, England, UK
Known for
- Young Soul Rebels (1991) — Director
- BaadAsssss Cinema (2002) — Director
- Looking for Langston (1989) — Director
- Daddy and the Muscle Academy (1991) — Himself
- Derek (2008) — Director
- Scala!!! (2024) — Self
- Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask (1996) — Director
- The Attendant (1993) — Director
- 30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing (2019) — Director
- Queer as Art (2017) — Self
- This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement (1988)
- The Darker Side of Black (1994) — Director
- Significant (Br)other (1993) — Novel
- Once Again... (Statues Never Die) (2022) — Director
- Ten Thousand Waves (2010) — Director
- Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous Entanglement (2019) — Director