A rare screening of Isaac Julien's Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask (1996) with the filmmaker.
Open to all!
Isaac Julien is one of the most esteemed, accomplished, and thought-provoking artists of our time. Working in film, video, documentary, drama, installations, photography, galleries, museums, and festivals, he takes the world, especially the diasporic world, as his subject. Born in 1960 in London, where he currently lives and works, Isaac Julien graduated from Saint Martin's School of Art in 1984, having studied painting and fine art film. His early work includes the poetic documentary Looking for Langston, the Cannes winner Young Soul Rebels, and the historical hybrid Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask. Julien was a finalist for the Turner Prize in 2001 for his installation works, The Long Road to Mazatlán and Vagabondia. More recent documentary work has included Badasss Cinema and Derek, on the life of Derek Jarman, co-produced with Tilda Swinton. His most recent installation commission was Small Boats: Western Union, on the deadly voyage by African migrants to the shores of Europe. Julien received MIT's Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts and the Frameline Lifetime Achievement Award. He was given a retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. See www.isaacjulien.com.
Presented by the Social Documentation Program of the Community Studies Department in collaboration with the Center for Cultural Studies, the Film and Digital Media Department, and the History of Art and Visual Culture Department.