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 |
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Most Rating | 0.771 |
Birthday | 1960-02-21 |
Place of Birth | East End, London, England, UK |
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1992
Black and White in Colour
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A two part documentary that details the contribution of black and Asian people to television history from the birth of television in 1936 to 1992. Int...
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Black and White in Colour
2003
Lost Boundaries
6/1
Lost Boundaries is comprised of footage shot by Julien on location, in England in the summer of 1985, during the making of the Sankofa film and video...
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Lost Boundaries
2024
Scala!!!
8.6/5
This feature-length big screen documentary tells the riotous inside story of the infamous sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll repertory cinema which inspired...
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Scala!!!
1987
Reframing AIDS
0/0
Through a series of interviews with leading British AIDS activists and cultural theorists, this documentary investigates the way in which AIDS has bee...
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Reframing AIDS
2017
Queer as Art
4/3
Documentary celebrating the LGBTQ contribution to the arts in Britain in the 50 years since decriminalisation. It features interviews with leading fig...
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Queer as Art
1991
Daddy and the Muscle Academy
5.6/13
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Daddy and the Muscle Academy
1983
Gay Black Group
0/0
The formation of the Gay Black Group was a landmark in gay black history. Meeting at Gay's the Word, a bookshop in Bloomsbury, London, it provided a s...
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Gay Black Group
1988
This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement
3.5/2
This highly stylized short asserts sexual desire over fear in gay romantic relationships.
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This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement
2019
Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art
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Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves) explores Video Art, revealing how different generations ‘hacked’ the tools of television to pioneer new ways of creating art...
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Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art
1995
Black Nations/Queer Nations?
0/0
This is an experimental documentary chronicling the March 1995 groundbreaking conference on lesbian and gay sexualities in the African diaspora. The c...
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