About the Artist
Isaac Julien is as acclaimed for his fluent, arresting films as for his vibrant and inventive gallery installations. One of the objectives of his work is to break down the barriers that exist between different artistic disciplines, drawing from and commenting on film, dance, photography, music, theatre, painting and sculpture, and uniting them to construct a powerfully visual narrative.
Survey: Selected Works
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Tecnologia pré-histórica / Prehistoric Technology (Lina Bo Bardi - A Marvellous Entanglement), 2019
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O que é um museu? / What is a Museum? (Lina Bo Bardi - A Marvellous Entanglement), 2019
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Soluções inventadas / Solutions Invented (Lina Bo Bardi - A Marvellous Entanglement), 2019
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Pas de deux with Roses (Looking for Langston Vintage Series), 1989/2016
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Film-Noir Staircase (Looking for Langston Vintage Series), 1989/2016
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After George Platt Lynes (Looking for Langston Vintage Series), 1989/2017
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PLAYTIME, 2014
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ECLIPSE (Playtime), 2013
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MIRAGE (Playtime), 2013
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Ten Thousand Waves, 2010
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Still Life Studies Series, No. 1, 2008
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Derek Jarman Brutal Beauty, 2008
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True North Series, Ice Project Work No. 8, 2007
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True South Series No 4 (Apparatus 4 / Mis-en-Scene), 2008
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Western Union Series No. 2 (Flight Towards Other Destinies 1), 2007
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Western Union Series No. 7 (The Leopard), 2007
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Western Union: Small Boats, 2007
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Western Union: Small Boats, 2007
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Fantôme Créole, 2005
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Fantôme Créole Series (Place des Cineastes - Roundabout), 2005
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Fantôme Créole Series (Cinema Cinema), 2005
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Baltimore, 2003
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Baltimore Series (Angela in Blue, No.1), 2003
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Vagabondia, 2000
In Focus: Isaac Julien on Lessons of the Hour
In this film, presented by Shifting Vision, Isaac Julien revisits his visionary ten-screen installation Lessons of the Hour in the light of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Lessons of the Hour was made in 2019. It contemplates the life and spirit of Frederick Douglass in relation to contemporaneity. Douglass was a prolific orator, writer, abolitionist, collector, former slave, and the most photographed person in the United States during his lifetime. In conversation with Shifting Vision, Julien discusses Lessons of the Hour, its conception and influences, and the ways in which it has been examined in light of the reinvigorated Black Lives Matter movement.