Isaac Julien

Born: 1960-02-21

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.


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Scala!!!

as Self
Released: 2024-01-05

This feature-length big screen documentary tells the riotous inside story of the infamous sex,...

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Daddy and the Muscle Academy

as Himself
Released: 1991-10-17

Tom of Finland is one of the gay world's few authentic icons. His drawings have had an enormous...

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Lost Boundaries

as uncredited
Released: 2003-01-01

Lost Boundaries is comprised of footage shot by Julien on location, in England in the summer of...

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Queer as Art

as Self
Released: 2017-07-27

Documentary celebrating the LGBTQ contribution to the arts in Britain in the 50 years since...

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Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art

as uncredited
Released: 2019-11-24

Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves) explores Video Art, revealing how different generations ‘hacked’ the...

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Gay Black Group

as Self
Released: 1983-01-01

The formation of the Gay Black Group was a landmark in gay black history. Meeting at Gay's the...

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This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement

as uncredited
Released: 1988-08-04

This highly stylized short asserts sexual desire over fear in gay romantic relationships.

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Reframing AIDS

as Himself
Released: 1987-01-01

Through a series of interviews with leading British AIDS activists and cultural theorists, this...

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Black Nations/Queer Nations?

as Self - Panelist
Released: 1995-01-01

This is an experimental documentary chronicling the March 1995 groundbreaking conference on...

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