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.
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Acting History
2024
Scala!!! as Self
2019Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art
2017Queer as Art as Self
2003Lost Boundaries
1995Black Nations/Queer Nations? as Self - Panelist
1992Black and White in Colour as Self
1991Daddy and the Muscle Academy as Himself
1988This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement
1987Reframing AIDS as Himself
1983Gay Black Group as Self