Movies: Travis Wilkerson

A haunted man desperately searches for his lost love through an illegal pirate radio broadcast. Punk-agit-noir....

“In 1946, my great-grandfather murdered a black man named Bill Spann and got away with it.” So begins Travis Wilkerson’s critically acclaimed documentary, DID YOU WONDER WHO FIRED THE GUN?, which takes us on a journey through the American South to un...

A portrait of the great radical Cuban film maker Santiago Alvarez....

In depressed Butte, Montana, young men struggle to forge modest lives and make sense of it all....

Taking inspiration from the collaborative 1967 militant anthology film Far from Vietnam, five of the boldest and most prominent American militant filmmakers unite to create this searing (and seething) omnibus work, employing a variety of approaches t...

An experimental documentary exploring the turn-of-century lynching of union organizer Frank Little in Butte, Montana....

"...In the film, Wilkerson presents four interviewees. Two are widows whose family members (one husband, one son) were Afghan vets who committed suicide. The other two are women who lost family members because Detroit Edison turned off their electric...

If there is anyone who embodies the current state of life in Croatia, it is the police detective Ivan Peric. The son of a fisherman, he became a detective as a way of avoiding working in the only really prospering industry of present-day Croatia – to...

A monument to the Tlatelolco student massacre of 1968 in Mexico City, ten days before the Olympics. Hundred of students were disappeared. A grotesque tradition - the complete physical obliteration of students organizing for progressive change - was h...

A family trip across the American West becomes an essay film about nuclear threats past and present. The apocalypse is omnipresent, and the journey shows that destruction has long since become inscribed into the landscape and history of the country....

For the 150th anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre, a simple pairing: images of the site of the Sand Creek Massacre in southeastern Colorado; the sounds of fireworks from my neighborhood recorded on the 4th of July....

Is now the right time to present a Leninist agitation on the history of American imperialism and war? The answer may depend on whether you believe that things like carpet-bombing, the tactics of decimation and the role of capitalism have something to...

A father tells his sons the epic yet nonchalant tale of his airborne "exploits" in Vietnam....

A reply to an earlier work – a radically digressive footnote – and the opening salvo of a new tendency. It is intensely personal and explores the relationship of storytelling to violence, to power, and to memory....

The first of two two Videographic essays with critical reflections on representations of the Vietnam War. “Full Metal Kuleshov Effect,” counterposes the work of Stanley Kubrick with that of Santiago Alvarez and the Vietnamese director Hai Ninh.​...

The second of two two Videographic essays with critical reflections on representations of the Vietnam War. “Disaffection Image,” uses the writings of Chinua Achebe and Gilles Deleuze to interrogate racist and colonial tropes in “Apocalypse Now.”...

Out of respect for his parents' request, four and one half minutes of silence for Michael Brown Jr. One minute for each hour his body lay in the streets of Ferguson, MO after he was shot to death by Officer Darren Wilson. Please watch in darkness. Pl...

Restore the classical definition of planet! Bring back planet Pluto! The solar system is twelve!...

The opening, Los Angeles today, at dusk. In this first instalment of a series about the police in the United States, Travis Wilkerson seeks to trace the early activities of the Red Squad section of the municipal police, under the zealous tutelage of ...

SAND CREEK EQUATION uses a poetic narrative style to explore the horrendous parallels linking the 2008-2009 war on the Gaza Strip with the 1864 Native American massacre in Sand Creek, Colorado....