Isaac Julien

Isaac Julien studied at St. Martin's School of Art. His films and videos have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; the Institute ofContemporary Art and the Museum of Fine Arts,Boston; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; the Brooklyn Museum of Art; and at numerous filmfestivals around the world, such as Berlin, Paris, Melbourne, and Sundance (Utah) . A retrospective was presented at the Out in Africa Film Festival, Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Durban, South Africa. His performance and installation, Lookingfor Langston, was shown in Minneapolis, London,and Newcastle. Awards include the Art Pace International Award, 1998; Best Short Film, Chicago Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, 1993; Certificate of Merit, Golden Gate Awards, San Francisco Film Festival; Pratt and Whitney Canada Grand Prize, 15th International Festival of Films on Art. Mr. Julien lectures and writesextensively on issues of film, art, and sexuality. He is currently a Visiting Lecturer at harvard University. (1999)

The Passion of Remembrance
A Sankofa film by Maureen Blackwood and Isaac Julien, 1986, 80 min., Color
The first film by Sankofa Film and Video, THE PASSION OF REMEMBRANCE has gained classic status as a representation of the totality and diversity of Bl...