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The Attendant

Directed by Isaac Julien1993UK9 mins

A middle-aged museum guard locks eyes with a sexy young visitor, igniting a series of fantastical tableaux that wittily riff on race, sexual power dynamics, art history, gold lamé briefs, and Tom of Finland.

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Looking for Langston

It’s hard to imagine a more perfect year for Looking for Langston to be restored to its full elegance. Isaac Julien’s classic 1989 meditation on desire, poetry, and the Harlem Renaissance still pulsates with urgency: a prophetic forerunner of the Moonlight era.

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Director
Isaac Julien
Year
1993
Country
UK
Running Time
9 mins
Language
English
Section
Short

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