Director

Isaac Julien

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 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.

Often works with

J
John Wilson
3 titles together
Looking for Langston, Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask, The Attendant
Stuart Hall
2 titles together
Looking for Langston, Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
N
Nigel Harrison
2 titles together
Young Soul Rebels, Young Soul Rebels

Full filmography · 30

Once Again... (Statues Never Die)
Director
2025
Once Again... (Statues Never Die)
Director and Writer
2022
Encore No.1 Paradise Omeros
Director
2021
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
Director
2019
Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art
cast
2019
Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous Entanglement
Director
2019
Lessons of the Hour
Director
2019
Playtime
Director
2013
Ten Thousand Waves
Director
2010
Derek
Director
2008
Western Union: Small Boats
Director
2007
Portrait in Blue: Essex Hemphill
Director
2005