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...

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

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

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.

Taking inspiration from the collaborative 1967 militant anthology film Far from Vietnam, five of the boldest and most prominent American militant...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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,” ...

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...

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...

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