Cast & creator
Isaac Julien
Best known for Lost Boundaries, Lost Boundaries, The Passion of Remembrance
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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1983–2025 · acting roles
6.2
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Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (53)
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Lost Boundaries
2003Lost Boundaries
Director
2003
The Passion of Remembrance
Director
1986The Passion of Remembrance
Writer
1986
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
Director
2019
Scala!!!
Self
2024
Playtime
Director
2013
BaadAsssss Cinema
Director
2002
Young Soul Rebels
Director
1991Young Soul Rebels
Writer
1991
Fantôme Afrique
Director
2005
Once Again... (Statues Never Die)
Director
2022Once Again... (Statues Never Die)
Writer
2022Fantôme Creole
Director
2005
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
Director
1996Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
Screenplay
1996
Three
Director
2000
Black and White in Colour
Self
1992Black and White in Colour
Director
1992
Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous Entanglement
Director
2019Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous Entanglement
Screenplay
2019
Daddy and the Muscle Academy
Himself
1991
Lessons of the Hour
Director
2019
Vagabondia
Director
2000
Reframing AIDS
Himself
1987
Derek
Director
2008Derek
Executive Producer
2008
Ten Thousand Waves
Director
2010
Territories
Director
1984
True North
Director
2004
Paradise Omeros
Director
2002Paradise Omeros
Writer
2002
Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art
2019
Black Nations/Queer Nations?
Self - Panelist
1995
Dreaming Rivers
Assistant Director
1989
Looking for Langston
Director
1989Looking for Langston
Screenplay
1989
Gay Black Group
Self
1983
Queer as Art
Self
2017
Who Killed Colin Roach?
Director
1983
Once Again... (Statues Never Die)
Director
2025
Western Union: Small Boats
Director
2007
Baltimore
Director
2003
Portrait in Blue: Essex Hemphill
Director
2005
This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement
1988This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement
Director
1988This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement
Producer
1988Long Road to Mazatlán
Director
1999Significant (Br)other
Novel
1993
Encore No.1 Paradise Omeros
Director
2021
The Attendant
Director
1993
The Darker Side of Black
Director
1994Encore II (Radioactive)
Director
2004