Julian Samuel
Julian J. Samuel was born in . After living in the UK he moved to Canada, first to Toronto, then to Peterborough, Ontario, where he completed a degree in English literature at Trent University. He has resided in Montréal, where he gained an Master of Fine Arts from Concordia University in 1981. Samuel has taught graduate level courses in Film Studies at Concordia University and at John Abbott College. He has produced and directed short and medium length films and videos: Black Skin; White Masks (1973-79); Dictators (1982), Resisting The Pharaohs (1984; on the Montréal arms-export industry), and Red Star over the Western Press: Archive; Algeria, 1954-62 (1987), which is the first attempt to dramatize the work of Frantz Fanon. This tape was invited to the London Filmmakers co-op and at an international conference in Algeria in 1987. His work has been exhibited in Canada, England and the USA; his articles have been published in Canadian Literature, Fuse, Serai, Ba-zzar, Public, and Borderlines. Julian Samuel has published Lone Ranger in Pakistan (1986), The Raft of the Medusa (with Joceylne Doray) and a novel, Passage to Lahore (1995). He has produced, directed and edited the following four-hour video essay which analyzes the relationship between the Middle East and the West: The Raft of the Medusa: five voices on colonies nations and histories (1993); Into the European Mirror (1994); City of the Dead and the World Exhibitions (1995) and Fatwa 447 (1999). He was artist in residence at The Banff Centre in 1993 and 1998.
