In its stylish and erotic imagery, ‘This is Not an AIDS Ad’ might be seen as
having been a riposte to the Puritanism of the mid-1980s ‘moral panic’
around AIDS. A two-part video, the first part deals with lyrical images of
death and loss while the second part is more joyful and musically assertive.
Filmed in the Sir John Soane museum in London, ‘Vagabondia’ is a film in which curation meets choreography. A black female conservator imagines the buried…
Made when Julien was part of the British film-making collective Sankofa,’Territories’ focuses on the annual event of Carnival, the festival of Caribbean music and dance…