Critical Writing Index

True North, Brave and Free:: Isaac Julien's True North

by Warren Chrichlow

Fuse, Winter 2006, v. 29, no. 1, pp. 38-40

Isaac Julien's film installation True North reflects the story of African-American explorer Matthew Henson's 1909 expedition to the North Pole. The work is '...a complex meditation on his narrative on race, nation-building and colonical cartography entered in the machinations of of gender in Western modernity'.

ITEM 2006.006 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

True NorthIssac Julien