Isaac Julien

  • Maureen Blackwood & Isaac Julien – The Passion of Remembrance (1986)

    1981-1990ArthouseIsaac JulienMaureen BlackwoodUnited Kingdom
    The Passion of Remembrance (1986)
    The Passion of Remembrance (1986)

    Shifting between real and mystic landscapes, Blackwood and Julien create a visual mosaic to signify the complexity of the black British experience and the often-overlooked intersections between race, class, gender and sexuality.Read More »

  • Isaac Julien & Bernard Rose – Derek [+ Extras] (2008)

    2001-2010Bernard RoseDocumentaryIsaac JulienUnited Kingdom

    An artist spends his or her existence examining life through their art, so why is it often so hard to use art to examine the artist’s life in turn? We’ve all seen biopics that merely scratch the surface of a creative existence, either spending too much time focusing on the travails of the individual and leaving their creations by the wayside, or flat studies of the work alone that seemingly forget that there was a person behind the words or images.Read More »

  • Isaac Julien – Derek [+Extras] (2008)

    2001-2010ArthouseDocumentaryIsaac JulienQueer Cinema(s)United Kingdom

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    An artist spends his or her existence examining life through their art, so why is it often so hard to use art to examine the artist’s life in turn? We’ve all seen biopics that merely scratch the surface of a creative existence, either spending too much time focusing on the travails of the individual and leaving their creations by the wayside, or flat studies of the work alone that seemingly forget that there was a person behind the words or images.

    Isaac Julien’s new documentary Derek tries to have the best of everything in its portrait of painter and visionary filmmaker Derek Jarman, and for the most part, it succeeds. As a tribute to the man, Julien and his collaborators, producer Colin MacCabe and actress Tilda Swinton, let the viewer behind the curtain to see who Jarman was and what fueled his inspired works; at the same time, we see pieces of that work, and we learn what it meant to him as a person and to the culture at large.Read More »

  • Isaac Julien – BaadAsssss Cinema: A Bold Look at ’70s Blaxploitation Films (2002)

    2001-2010DocumentaryExploitationIsaac JulienUSA

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    from rottentomatoes
    “Produced by the Independent Film Channel (IFC), this documentary by filmmaker Isaac Julien takes a look at blaxploitation films, and the huge cult following that has built up around them. Interviews with some of the original actors and directors of the genre are featured, including Richard Roundtree, Pam Grier and Melvin Van Peebles; Latter day fan Quentin Tarantino also offers his opinions. The explosive mixture of incredible fashions, hairstyles, comedy, sex, action and music contained in these films has won millions of fans all over the globe, find out why in BAASASSSSS CINEMA!”Read More »

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