Isaac Julien

Person

Isaac Julien

Directing 66 February 21, 1960

East End, London, England, UK

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 dif…

IMDb

Known for

Popular titles

Young Soul Rebels

Young Soul Rebels

5.4 1991 Movie
BaadAsssss Cinema

BaadAsssss Cinema

6.0 2002 Movie
Looking for Langston

Looking for Langston

5.1 1989 Movie
Derek

Derek

5.5 2008 Movie
Daddy and the Muscle Academy

Daddy and the Muscle Academy

5.7 1991 Movie
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing

30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing

5.3 2019 Movie
Scala!!!

Scala!!!

7.8 2024 Movie
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask

Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask

7.2 1996 Movie
The Attendant

The Attendant

4.4 1993 Movie
Fantôme Afrique

Fantôme Afrique

2005 Movie
Lost Boundaries

Lost Boundaries

6.0 2003 Movie
Territories

Territories

9.0 1984 Movie

Biography

A closer look

Read full 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.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2025
    Once Again... (Statues Never Die)

    Movie Director

  2. 2024
    Scala!!!

    Movie Self

  3. 2022
    Once Again... (Statues Never Die)

    Movie Director

  4. 2021
    Encore No.1 Paradise Omeros

    Movie Director

  5. 2019
    30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing

    Movie Director

  6. 2019
    Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art

    Movie

  7. 2019
    Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous Entanglement

    Movie Director

  8. 2019
    Lessons of the Hour

    Movie Director

  9. 2017
    Queer as Art

    Movie Self

  10. 2013
    Playtime

    Movie Director

  11. 2010
    Ten Thousand Waves

    Movie Director

  12. 2008
    Derek

    Movie Director

  13. 2007
    Western Union: Small Boats

    Movie Director

  14. 2005
    Portrait in Blue: Essex Hemphill

    Movie Director

  15. 2005
    Fantôme Afrique

    Movie Director

  16. 2005
    Fantôme Creole

    Movie Director

More credits
  1. 2004
    True North

    Movie Director

  2. 2004
    Encore II (Radioactive)

    Movie Director

  3. 2003
    Lost Boundaries

    Movie

  4. 2003
    Baltimore

    Movie Director

  5. 2002
    BaadAsssss Cinema

    Movie Director

  6. 2002
    Paradise Omeros

    Movie Director

  7. 2000
    Three

    Movie Director

  8. 2000
    Vagabondia

    Movie Director

  9. 1999
    Long Road to Mazatlán

    Movie Director

  10. 1996
    Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask

    Movie Director

  11. 1995
    Black Nations/Queer Nations?

    Movie Self - Panelist

  12. 1994
    The Darker Side of Black

    Movie Director

  13. 1993
    The Attendant

    Movie Director

  14. 1993
    Significant (Br)other

    Movie Novel

  15. 1992
    Black and White in Colour

    Movie Self

  16. 1991
    Daddy and the Muscle Academy

    Movie Himself

  17. 1991
    Young Soul Rebels

    Movie Director

  18. 1989
    Looking for Langston

    Movie Director

  19. 1989
    Dreaming Rivers

    Movie Assistant Director

  20. 1988
    This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement

    Movie

  21. 1987
    Reframing AIDS

    Movie Himself

  22. 1986
    The Passion of Remembrance

    Movie Director

  23. 1984
    Territories

    Movie Director

  24. 1983
    Gay Black Group

    Movie Self