Isaac Julien

Isaac Julien was born in 1960 and lives and works in London, where he founded both Sankofa Film and Video Collective and Normal Films. His films include the Cannes Film Festival prizewinner "Young Soul Rebels", (1991), and a documentary on Langston Hughes, "Looking for Langston" (1989). His works have been featured in solo and group exhibitions around the world, and he is a prominent member of the British cultural studies movement. Julien has been a lecturer at Harvard University and the...See more

Isaac Julien was born in 1960 and lives and works in London, where he founded both Sankofa Film and Video Collective and Normal Films. His films include the Cannes Film Festival prizewinner "Young Soul Rebels", (1991), and a documentary on Langston Hughes, "Looking for Langston" (1989). His works have been featured in solo and group exhibitions around the world, and he is a prominent member of the British cultural studies movement. Julien has been a lecturer at Harvard University and the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Study Program. See less