Isaac Julien Movies

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

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....

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...

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

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

A bittersweet and nostalgic short drama illustrating the spirit of modern families touched by the experience of migration. Miss T., from the...

An experimental dance piece revealing the complex dynamics between two dancers and another woman.

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

The film explores the storied relationship between Dr Albert C. Barnes, an early US collector and exhibitor of African cultural artefacts, and the...

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...

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

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

This highly stylized short asserts sexual desire over fear in gay romantic relationships.

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

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

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

Encore II (Radioactive) is a short film study inspired by a character from the writings of Octavia Butler, an African American science fiction...

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.