Isaac Julien Movies

Two disc jockeys have a friend's murder to solve in the fringe-group melting pot of 1977 London.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Valentine Nonyela

A black and white, fantasy-like recreation of high-society gay men during the Harlem Renaissance, with archival footage and photographs intercut with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ben Ellison

A black and white, fantasy-like recreation of high-society gay men during the Harlem Renaissance, with archival footage and photographs intercut with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ben Ellison

Isaac Julien's contribution to Documenta Platform6 in memory of Okwui Enwezor.

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With archive film clips and interviews, this brief look at a frequently overlooked historical period of filmmaking acts as an introduction rather...

Genre: Action

Cast: Larry Cohen

Derek, in chronological order, records the work and life that stands at the foot of Derek Jarman's humour and spirit of being an artist. The...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tilda Swinton

Lost Boundaries is comprised of footage shot by Julien on location, in England in the summer of 1985, during the making of the Sankofa film and video...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Isaac Julien

Memory mixes with desire as a museum attendant is caught up in sado-masochistic fantasies inspired by a 19th century painting of slaves in chains...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Thomas Baptiste

Fantôme Créole is a four-screen film installation that juxtaposes Arctic and African landscapes as it combines two films: True North,...

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Explores the life and work of the psychoanalytic theorist and activist Frantz Fanon who was born in Martinique, educated in Paris and worked in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Colin Salmon

A black female conservator imagines the buried stories and the hidden histories within the museum's cornucopia of colonial plunder. Filmed with...

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Shot in Texas, Isaac Julien's Turner Prize nominated film installation Long Road to Mazatlán reflects upon the construction of masculinity...

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Paradise Omeros delves into the fantasies and feelings of "creoleness" - the mixed language, the hybrid mental states and the territorial...

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Cast: Steven Fajana

Co-directed by Blackwood and Julien, the first full-length feature film by Sankofa Film and Video offers a radical and necessary interrogation into...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anni Domingo

This highly stylized short asserts sexual desire over fear in gay romantic relationships.

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Cast: Isaac Julien

An immersive installation by the artist and filmmaker. "Coda" to Looking for Langston.

Genre: Drama

Cast: André Holland

An immersive installation by the artist and filmmaker. "Coda" to Looking for Langston.

Genre: Drama

Cast: André Holland

A bittersweet and nostalgic short drama illustrating the spirit of modern families touched by the experience of migration. Miss T., from the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Corinne Skinner-Carter

Territories is an experimental documentary about the Notting Hill Carnival. It locates the event within the struggle between white authority and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Maureen Blackwood

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Erotic images of Black men with voice over text by Isaac Julien and Kobena Mercer question the objectification of the Black male image by white...

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Fantôme Afrique, weaves cinematic and architectural references through the rich imagery of urban Ouagadougou, the centre for cinema in Africa,...

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Cast: Vanessa Myrie

TEN THOUSAND WAVES is a 9-screen installation shot on location in China. The work poetically weaves together stories linking China’s ancient...

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Cast: Maggie Cheung

Isaac Julien’s 2007 multi-screen installation Western Union Small Boats is a work where individual voyages, journeys and travel are explored...

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Two disc jockeys have a friend's murder to solve in the fringe-group melting pot of 1977 London.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Valentine Nonyela

Explores the life and work of the psychoanalytic theorist and activist Frantz Fanon who was born in Martinique, educated in Paris and worked in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Colin Salmon

Encore II (Radioactive) is a short film study inspired by a character from the writings of Octavia Butler, an African American science fiction...

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Playtime’s cosmopolitan spectacle, presented in a kaleidoscopic montage across seven large screens, interconnects the lives of its archetypical...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mercedes Cabral

Derek, in chronological order, records the work and life that stands at the foot of Derek Jarman's humour and spirit of being an artist. The...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tilda Swinton

A two part documentary that details the contribution of black and Asian people to television history from the birth of television in 1936 to 1992....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stuart Hall

An exploration of the homophobia expressed by reggae and rap artists againts gays and lesbians. Inludes interviews with rappers Shabba Ranks and Buju...

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Isaac Julien's visionary film Lessons of the Hour explores the incomparable achievements of Frederick Douglass, America’s foremost abolitionist...

Genre: History

Cast: Ray Fearon

Paradise Omeros delves into the fantasies and feelings of "creoleness" - the mixed language, the hybrid mental states and the territorial...

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Cast: Steven Fajana

Loosely inspired by the story of the black American explorer, Matthew Henson (1866-1955) who accompanied Robert Peary and was one of the first people...

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Cast: Vanessa Myrie

Baltimore deals with the cinematization of video art, on the one hand, and a queering and racing of the museum, on the other. The film installation...

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This highly stylized short asserts sexual desire over fear in gay romantic relationships.

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Cast: Isaac Julien

Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company’s indelible contribution to independent cinema over...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maria Schneider

An experimental dance piece revealing the complex dynamics between two dancers and another woman.

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Co-directed by Blackwood and Julien, the first full-length feature film by Sankofa Film and Video offers a radical and necessary interrogation into...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anni Domingo

Who Killed Colin Roach? is Isaac Julien's first film, which reflects upon the death of Colin Roach, a 23 year old who was shot at the entrance of a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Benjamin Zephaniah

The multiple screen installation and photographic series A Marvellous Entanglement (2019) traverses a collection of Lina Bo Bardi’s most iconic...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lina Bo Bardi