Isaac Julien: Bohen Foundation.(New York)(film Paradise Omeros, 2002)

Beginning in the Caribbean, in tropical color and light, Isaac Julien's Paradise Omeros, 2002, soon moves to London, where it turns concrete gray. Kicking off from Derek Walcott's book length poem Omeros, itself inspired by Homer, Julien's film might take as its slogan the name of Walcott's stand in for the Greek blind singer: Seven Seas, which arc widespread over the world and nowhere at rest.

Julien is a Londoner whose family comes from Saint Lucia, Walcott's home. Embedded in Paradise Omeros is a history of migration and dislocation--the stuff of postcolonial studies, here ...

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