Isaac Julien
Birthday: 1960-02-21
Place of Birth: East End, London, England, UK
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.
Movies
Black and White in Colour
A two part documentary that details the contribution of black and Asian people to television history...
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Lost Boundaries
Lost Boundaries is comprised of footage shot by Julien on location, in England in the summer of 1985...
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Scala!!!
This feature-length big screen documentary tells the riotous inside story of the infamous sex, drugs...
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Reframing AIDS
Through a series of interviews with leading British AIDS activists and cultural theorists, this docu...
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Queer as Art
Documentary celebrating the LGBTQ contribution to the arts in Britain in the 50 years since decrimin...
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Daddy and the Muscle Academy
Tom of Finland is one of the gay world's few authentic icons. His drawings have had an enormous infl...
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Gay Black Group
The formation of the Gay Black Group was a landmark in gay black history. Meeting at Gay's the Word,...
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This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement
This highly stylized short asserts sexual desire over fear in gay romantic relationships....
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Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art
Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves) explores Video Art, revealing how different generations ‘hacked’ the tools...
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Black Nations/Queer Nations?
This is an experimental documentary chronicling the March 1995 groundbreaking conference on lesbian ...
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