Looking for Langston: Isaac Julien in conversation with Hilton Als from haunt Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 2 min 74 sec
✓ Published: 29-Jun-2017

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Artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien and Pulitzer Prize winning critic and author Hilton Als first met in the late 1980s, when Julien was researching his seminal film Looking for Langston. Als went on to become one of the writers of the 1989 film, which is a lyrical exploration of the private world of poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967) and his fellow black artists and writers who formed the Harlem Renaissance during the 1920s. n n“I think that