Artist field note

Isaac Julien

Cinema expanded across multiple screens.

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Lessons of the Hour

2019

Frederick Douglass appears across ten screens, placing historical speech inside a contemporary immersive space.

The five in one idea

Julien uses multi-screen cinema to make history spatial: viewers must turn, choose and connect what no single frame can contain.