Isaac Julien Movies

  • 1991
    Daddy and the Muscle Academy

    Daddy and the Muscle Academy

    Daddy and the Muscle Academy

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    Tom of Finland is one of the gay world's few authentic icons. His drawings have had an enormous influence on gay identity. Tom's ultimate leather men...

    Daddy and the Muscle Academy
  • 2024
    Scala!!!

    Scala!!!

    Scala!!!

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    This feature-length big screen documentary tells the riotous inside story of the infamous sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll repertory cinema which...

    Scala!!!
  • 1986
    The Passion of Remembrance

    The Passion of Remembrance

    The Passion of Remembrance

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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...

    The Passion of Remembrance
  • 2008
    Derek

    Derek

    Derek

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    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...

    Derek
  • 2022
    Once Again... (Statues Never Die)

    Once Again... (Statues Never Die)

    Once Again... (Statues Never Die)

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

    Once Again... (Statues Never Die)
  • 1991
    Young Soul Rebels

    Young Soul Rebels

    Young Soul Rebels

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

    Young Soul Rebels
  • 2002
    BaadAsssss Cinema

    BaadAsssss Cinema

    BaadAsssss Cinema

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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...

    BaadAsssss Cinema
  • 2017
    Queer as Art

    Queer as Art

    Queer as Art

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    Documentary celebrating the LGBTQ contribution to the arts in Britain in the 50 years since decriminalisation. It features interviews with leading...

    Queer as Art
  • 2013
    Playtime

    Playtime

    Playtime

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

    Playtime
  • 1992
    Black and White in Colour

    Black and White in Colour

    Black and White in Colour

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    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....

    Black and White in Colour
  • 2019
    30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing

    30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing

    30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing

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

    30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
  • 1989
    Looking for Langston

    Looking for Langston

    Looking for Langston

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

    Looking for Langston
  • 2020
    Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvelous Entanglement

    Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvelous Entanglement

    Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvelous Entanglement

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

    Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvelous Entanglement
  • 1995
    Black Nations/Queer Nations?

    Black Nations/Queer Nations?

    Black Nations/Queer Nations?

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    This is an experimental documentary chronicling the March 1995 groundbreaking conference on lesbian and gay sexualities in the African diaspora. The...

    Black Nations/Queer Nations?
  • 1996
    Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask

    Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask

    Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask

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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...

    Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
  • 2019
    Lessons of the Hour

    Lessons of the Hour

    Lessons of the Hour

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

    Lessons of the Hour
  • 2019
    Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art

    Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art

    Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art

    02019HD

    Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves) explores Video Art, revealing how different generations ‘hacked’ the tools of television to pioneer new ways of...

    Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art
  • 2010
    Ten Thousand Waves

    Ten Thousand Waves

    Ten Thousand Waves

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

    Ten Thousand Waves
  • 1987
    Reframing AIDS

    Reframing AIDS

    Reframing AIDS

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    Through a series of interviews with leading British AIDS activists and cultural theorists, this documentary investigates the way in which AIDS has...

    Reframing AIDS
  • 2003
    Lost Boundaries

    Lost Boundaries

    Lost Boundaries

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    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...

    Lost Boundaries