Isaac Julien
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday21 February 1960 (66 years old)
Place of birthEast End, London, England, UK
Known credits41
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.
Once Again... (Statues Never Die)
2025 · Director
Scala!!!
2024 · Self
Once Again... (Statues Never Die)
2022 · Director
Once Again... (Statues Never Die)
2022 · Writer
Encore No.1 Paradise Omeros
2021 · Director
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019 · Director
Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art
2019
Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous Entanglement
2019 · Director
Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous Entanglement
2019 · Screenplay
Lessons of the Hour
2019 · Director
Queer as Art
2017 · Self
Playtime
2013 · Director
Ten Thousand Waves
2010 · Director
Derek
2008 · Director
Derek
2008 · Executive Producer
Western Union: Small Boats
2007 · Director
Portrait in Blue: Essex Hemphill
2005 · Director
Fantôme Creole
2005 · Director
Fantôme Afrique
2005 · Director
Encore II (Radioactive)
2004 · Director
True North
2004 · Director
Lost Boundaries
2003
Lost Boundaries
2003 · Director
Baltimore
2003 · Director
BaadAsssss Cinema
2002 · Director
Paradise Omeros
2002 · Director
Paradise Omeros
2002 · Writer
Three
2000 · Director
Vagabondia
2000 · Director
Long Road to Mazatlán
1999 · Director
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
1996 · Director
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
1996 · Screenplay
Black Nations/Queer Nations?
1995 · Self - Panelist
The Darker Side of Black
1994 · Director
The Attendant
1993 · Director
Significant (Br)other
1993 · Novel
Black and White in Colour
1992 · Self
Black and White in Colour
1992 · Director
Daddy and the Muscle Academy
1991 · Himself
Young Soul Rebels
1991 · Director
Young Soul Rebels
1991 · Writer
Looking for Langston
1989 · Director
Looking for Langston
1989 · Screenplay
Dreaming Rivers
1989 · Assistant Director
This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement
1988
This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement
1988 · Director
This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement
1988 · Producer
Reframing AIDS
1987 · Himself
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