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Isaac Julien’s painterly approach probes the edges of cinema

By Jeffrey Gantz

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  January 29, 2012

Isaac Julien’s films prowl the margins of mainstream cinema. The 51-year-old Londoner, whose parents emigrated to England from St. Lucia, in the Caribbean, first attracted attention with “Looking for Langston,’’ a black-and-white meditation on Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance that won a Teddy at the 1989 Berlin Film Festival. Today the ICA will complement that installation with an afternoon retrospective of his films, in three separate 90-minute programs.

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