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Encore (Paradise Omeros: Redux) from the suite Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image
Encore (Paradise Omeros: Redux) from the suite Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image
© Isaac Julien. Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York.

Encore (Paradise Omeros: Redux) from the suite Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image

Artist (Born in London, England, 1960)
Date2003
MediumVideo (color, sound)
Dimensions4:38 minute loop
ClassificationsVideo
Credit LineGift of Blake Byrne, A.B.’57
Object number2017.4.35.7
Collections
  • MODERN & CONTEMPORARY
Edition250
Label TextIsaac Julien is a prominent filmmaker and artist who has been a pioneering figure in the British film industry since the 1980s. Although initially intended to be included in the film of Paradise Omeros, the scenes selected here are an abstracted combination of the artist's favorite scenes that were not incorporated into the original full-length film. The title, Encore (Paradise Omeros: Redux), was inspired by the epic poem, Omeros. This poem, written by St. Lucian Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott, is a retelling of Homer's Iliad from a Caribbean and African diasporic perspective. The first figure to appear in the film is Walcott himself, who also narrates Julien's imaginative adaptation of his story. Julien's work raises potent issues of colonialism and post-colonialism, black identity, homosexuality, and the traditions of black music culture.

From Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image, 2004. Box set of eleven DVDs by the following artists: Francis Alys, David Claerbout, Douglas Gordon, Gary Hill, Pierre Huyghe, Joan Jonas, Isaac Julien, William Kentridge, Paul McCarthy, Pipilotti Rist, and Anri Sala. The edition is unlimited.

Produced by: Bick Productions (Ilene Kurtz-Kretzschma and Caroline Bourgeois) and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.

Executive producers: Jumex Collection, Mexico and Blink Digital, New York.

Sponsor: The New Art Trust, San Francisco.