Isaac Julien focus
Overview of films
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Vagabondia
Filmed in the Sir John Soane museum in London, ‘Vagabondia’ is a film in which curation meets choreography. A black female conservator
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This is not an AIDS Advertisement
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 &
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Baadasssss Cinema
In this wild and hyper-energetic documentary, Samuel L. Jackson, Richard Roundtree and Pam Grier cut their acting teeth on the blaxploitation genre
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Paradise Omeros
Specially edited single-screen version of the installation. See the description there.
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Looking for Langston
Made when Julien was a member of the Sankofa Film and Video Collective, ‘Looking for Langston’ is introduced as being ‘a meditati
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The Attendant
The eponymous ‘attendant’ of Julien’s short film is a middle-aged black man who finds his homoerotic fantasies taking over the mu
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Territories
Made when Julien was part of the British film-making collective Sankofa,’Territories’ focuses on the annual event of Carnival, the fest
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Paradise Omeros
Taking its inspiration, and part of its title, from Derek Walcott’s Homeric epic poem ‘Omeros’, this installation is both a devel
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Young Soul Rebels
The only feature by Julien, who immediately displays political ambitions: a daring attempt to reconcile skinhead culture and black culture through
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Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
Interviews, reconstructions and archive footage tell the story of Frantz Fanon, a psychiatrist in Algeria during the war of independence and a Thir
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Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
One of Julien’s most fully achieved documentaries which ably interweaves interviews, dramatic reconstruction and archive material, ‘Fan
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Baltimore
In ‘Baltimore’, Isaac Julien elaborates further on the theme of ‘Blaxploitation’ cinema that he examined in the more conven