Word: julien
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Isaac Julien, an independent filmmaker and visiting lecturer, is teaching the seminar, which examines how social and cultural dilemmas are depicted in the visual arts...
...filmmaker for 15 years, Julien won the Critic's Week Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1991. He is part of a movement of filmmakers known as new queer cinema, a major focus of the course...
...says his interest in his work stems from personal experience. A native of England, Julien is black...
...teaching the films--which include other documentaries and Asian cinema--Julien seeks to end what he calls an unnecessary separation between discussions of race and sexuality...
Each three-hour class begins with Julien's lecture and ends with a discussion with the filmmaker. Fewer than 40 people attended the first lecture...