Isaac Julien Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

The formation of the Gay Black Group was a landmark in gay black history. Meeting at Gay's the Word, a bookshop in Bloomsbury, London, it provided a...

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

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....

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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