Director
Isaac Julien
66 years · East End, London, England, UK · 36 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 36
Once Again... (Statues Never Die)
2025 · Director
Scala!!!
2024 · Self
Once Again... (Statues Never Die)
2022 · Director, 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 · Actor
Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous Entanglement
2019 · Director, Screenplay
Lessons of the Hour
2019 · Director
Queer as Art
2017 · Self
Playtime
2013 · Director
Ten Thousand Waves
2010 · Director
Derek
2008 · Director
On Kanopy
Western Union: Small Boats
2007 · Director
Portrait in Blue: Essex Hemphill
2005 · Director
Fantôme Afrique
2005 · Director
True North
2004 · Director
Lost Boundaries
2003 · Actor, Director
Baltimore
2003 · Director
BaadAsssss Cinema
2002 · Director
Paradise Omeros
2002 · Director, Writer
Three
2000 · Director
Vagabondia
2000 · Director
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
1996 · Director, Screenplay
Black Nations/Queer Nations?
1995 · Self - Panelist