Travis Wilkerson Movies

“In 1946, my great-grandfather murdered a black man named Bill Spann and got away with it.” So begins Travis Wilkerson’s critically...

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...

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...

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

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...

A family trip across the American West becomes an essay film about nuclear threats past and present. The apocalypse is omnipresent, and the journey...

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...

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...

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

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

A reply to an earlier work – a radically digressive footnote – and the opening salvo of a new tendency. It is intensely personal and...

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

"...In the film, Wilkerson presents four interviewees. Two are widows whose family members (one husband, one son) were Afghan vets who committed...

A monument to the Tlatelolco student massacre of 1968 in Mexico City, ten days before the Olympics. Hundred of students were disappeared. A grotesque...

The second of two two Videographic essays with critical reflections on representations of the Vietnam War. “Disaffection Image,” uses the...

The first of two two Videographic essays with critical reflections on representations of the Vietnam War. “Full Metal Kuleshov Effect,” ...

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...

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...

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