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Overzicht van films
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The Attendant
Isaac Julien | 10' | United Kingdom | -
The eponymous ‘attendant’ of Julien’s short film is a middle-aged black man who finds his homoerotic fantasies taking over the museum he supervises when a… -
Baadasssss Cinema
Isaac Julien | 56' | United Kingdom | -
In this wild and hyper-energetic documentary, Samuel L. Jackson, Richard Roundtree and Pam Grier cut their acting teeth on the blaxploitation genre. -
Baltimore
Isaac Julien | United Kingdom | -
In ‘Baltimore’, Isaac Julien elaborates further on the theme of ‘Blaxploitation’ cinema that he examined in the more conventional context of the documentary ‘Baadasssss Cinema’.… -
Baltimore
Isaac Julien | 20' | United Kingdom | -
Single-screen version of the installation. See the description there. -
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
Isaac Julien | United Kingdom | -
One of Julien’s most fully achieved documentaries which ably interweaves interviews, dramatic reconstruction and archive material, ‘Fanon’ is a study of the life and work… -
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
Isaac Julien | 73' | United Kingdom | -
Interviews, reconstructions and archive footage tell the story of Frantz Fanon, a psychiatrist in Algeria during the war of independence and a Third W -
Long Road to Mazatlan
Isaac Julien | 15' | United Kingdom | -
The single-screen film version of Julien’s triple screen-installation of the same name, ‘The Long Road to Mazatlan’ continues the filmmaker’s desire to integrate dance and… -
Looking for Langston
Isaac Julien | 40' | United Kingdom | -
Made when Julien was a member of the Sankofa Film and Video Collective, ‘Looking for Langston’ is introduced as being ‘a meditation on Langston Hughes… -
Paradise Omeros
Isaac Julien | United Kingdom | -
Taking its inspiration, and part of its title, from Derek Walcott’s Homeric epic poem ‘Omeros’, this installation is both a development and a refinement in… -
Paradise Omeros
Isaac Julien | 20' | United Kingdom | -
Specially edited single-screen version of the installation. See the description there. -
Territories
Isaac Julien | 25' | United Kingdom | -
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… -
This is not an AIDS Advertisement
Isaac Julien | 14' | United Kingdom | -
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…