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.

Filmography of Isaac Julien

• Once Again... (Statues Never Die) (2025)
• Once Again... (Statues Never Die) (2022)
• Encore No.1 Paradise Omeros (2021)
• Lessons of the Hour (2019)
• 30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing (2019)
• Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous Entanglement (2019)
• Playtime (2013)
• Ten Thousand Waves (2010)
• Derek (2008)
• Western Union: Small Boats (2007)
• Portrait in Blue: Essex Hemphill (2005)
• Fantôme Afrique (2005)
• True North (2004)
• Lost Boundaries (2003)
• Baltimore (2003)
• BaadAsssss Cinema (2002)
• Paradise Omeros (2002)
• Vagabondia (2000)
• Three (2000)
• Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask (1996)
• The Darker Side of Black (1994)
• The Attendant (1993)
• Black and White in Colour (1992)
• Young Soul Rebels (1991)
• Looking for Langston (1989)
• This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement (1988)
• The Passion of Remembrance (1986)
• Territories (1984)
• Who Killed Colin Roach? (1983)