Paradise Omeros (2002 - 2012)

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Isaac Julien Paradise Omeros Isaac Julien’s three-channel video Paradise Omeros (2002) explores the social, political, and emotional terrain of postcolonial identity through a richly imagined, elliptical narrative that steps outside the bounds of linear time to link two island cultures: 1960s England and contemporary Saint Lucia. The video’s protagonist, Achille, appears in both locations, first working as a waiter at a brilliantly colorful tropical resort and later wandering through bleak and gray London housing projects. Dreamlike scenes of the ocean and a lively party in an immigrant’s apartment spe