Isaac Julien: What Freedom Is To Me (Paperback)

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This is a stunningly designed exhibition, curated intelligently to be an active one that asks us to partake in the narrative, not to be passive bystanders to history, to great effect. This technique is an engaging one, as it brings the audience’s attention squarely back to the act of conscious looking. People’s looks started to change slightly when African populations began to grow within these vicinities,” he notes.

a question to which the shattering answer comes later: “All the museums in the world could never outweigh a lone spark of human empathy. Utilising a triptych of screens, myth and archive are tied together to create a homage to vulnerable refugees and migrants.Who Killed Colin Roach is thirty-four minutes long, shot using Super 8 film and subsequently transferred to digital format.

In 2022, he was awarded the Goslar Kaiserring; that same year, he was appointed to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science (AMPAS), entrusted with the annual awarding of the Oscars. Once Again … interpolates several scenes from Looking for Langston, in which Locke is also depicted; a full-circle moment.The more so because this film is a requiem, of sorts, for the 23 Chinese cocklepickers who died in Morecambe Bay in 2004. Here is A Marvellous Entanglement (2019), honouring the wild architecture of the Italian modernist Lina Bo Bardi, filmed across seven public buildings she designed for Brazil. In Looking for Langston, the queer African American poet Essex Hemphill narrates his poem If His Name Were Mandingo to shots of Robert Mapplethorpe’s portraits of Black men, as a means of critiquing the fetishistic gaze Mapplethorpe had enabled. I was part of a movement where younger queer film-makers could intervene through facilitators like Channel 4 and as part of a general fightback within gay subcultures against such oppressions as section 28 and Thatcherism. Born in London in 1960 to parents who had immigrated to the UK from St Lucia, Julien is known internationally for his compelling lyrical films and video art installations.