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Isaac Julien: Territories, The Attendant, and Looking for Langston with Rinaldo Walcott

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Channel: TIFF · 2018 · Film & Animation

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It has been nearly 20 years since Isaac Julien left the film world behind to devote himself to the gallery and the museum, but the short and medium-length films he made in the late '80s and early '90s remain constant points of reference for discussions about the intersections of cinema, visual art, and LGBTQ scholarship. Looking for Langston, the centrepiece of the artist's film work, sees Julien emerging as a film essayist of the highest order as he explores the life and art of Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes; Territories probes the meanings of London's Notting Hill carnival, while The Attendant collides homoerotics reminiscent of Derek Jarman with the racialized space of an art museum.

Territories (dir. Isaac Julien \ UK 1984 \ 26 min. Digital)

The Attendant (dir. Isaac Julien \ UK 1993 \ 8 min. 35mm)

Looking for Langston (dir. Isaac Julien \ UK 1989 \ 45 min. 16mm)

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Rinaldo Walcott
Rinaldo Walcott is a professor and the Director of the Women & Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. His most recent book is Queer Returns: Essays on Multiculturalism, Diaspora and Black Studies (16).

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