Personal Info
Birthday
February 21, 1960
Place of Birth
East End, London, England, UK
Known For
Directing
Isaac Julien
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.
Directed Movies (29)
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0.0
Once Again... (Statues Never Die)
Movie2025
4.5
Once Again... (Statues Never Die)
Movie2022
No Backdrop
0.0
Encore No.1 Paradise Omeros
Movie2021
5.3
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
Movie2019
8.5
Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous Entanglement
Movie2019
No Backdrop
8.0
Lessons of the Hour
Movie2019
No Backdrop
1.0
Playtime
Movie2013
No Backdrop
7.5
Ten Thousand Waves
Movie2010
5.3
Derek
Movie2008
No Backdrop
5.0
Western Union: Small Boats
Movie2007
No Backdrop
0.0
Portrait in Blue: Essex Hemphill
Movie2005
No Backdrop
0.0
Fantôme Afrique
Movie2005
No Backdrop
8.0
True North
Movie2004
No Backdrop
6.0
Lost Boundaries
Movie2003
No Backdrop
7.0
Baltimore
Movie2003
6.0
BaadAsssss Cinema
Movie2002
No Backdrop
9.0
Paradise Omeros
Movie2002
No Backdrop
9.0
Three
Movie2000
No Backdrop
6.0
Vagabondia
Movie2000
7.2
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
Movie1996
No Backdrop
2.8
The Darker Side of Black
Movie1994
No Backdrop
4.4
The Attendant
Movie1993
No Backdrop
10.0
Black and White in Colour
Movie1992
5.3
Young Soul Rebels
Movie1991
5.1
Looking for Langston
Movie1989
No Backdrop
3.8
This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement
Movie1988
0.0
The Passion of Remembrance
Movie1986
9.0
Territories
Movie1984
No Backdrop
0.0
Who Killed Colin Roach?
Movie1983
Acting Filmography (10)
7.8
Scala!!!
Movie2024
0.0
Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art
Movie2019
No Backdrop
3.2
Queer as Art
Movie2017
No Backdrop
6.0
Lost Boundaries
Movie2003
No Backdrop
0.0
Black Nations/Queer Nations?
Movie1995
No Backdrop
10.0
Black and White in Colour
Movie1992
5.6
Daddy and the Muscle Academy
Movie1991
No Backdrop
3.8
This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement
Movie1988
No Backdrop
0.0
Reframing AIDS
Movie1987
0.0
Gay Black Group
Movie1983