Travis Wilkerson

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 – tourism. Now his life is consumed by trying to solve a series of essentially unsolvable murders of tourists. Because the tourists are so widely despised, no one will help Ivan. Evidence disappears into the labyrinth of bureaucracy. He is humiliated in public and online. In the local press, his boss even labels him an “uhljeb”, the Croatian slur for a “lazy bureaucratic parasite”. All of this takes place in the city of Split, where the breakup of Yugoslavia has left its mark.

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 – tourism. Now his life is consumed by trying to solve a series of essentially unsolvable murders of tourists. Because the tourists are so widely despised, no one will help Ivan. Evidence disappears into the labyrinth of bureaucracy. He is humiliated in public and online. In the local press, his boss even labels him an “uhljeb”, the Croatian slur for a “lazy bureaucratic parasite”. All of this takes place in the city of Split, where the breakup of Yugoslavia has left its mark.

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 – tourism. Now his life is consumed by trying to solve a series of essentially unsolvable murders of tourists. Because the tourists are so widely despised, no one will help Ivan. Evidence disappears into the labyrinth of bureaucracy. He is humiliated in public and online. In the local press, his boss even labels him an “uhljeb”, the Croatian slur for a “lazy bureaucratic parasite”. All of this takes place in the city of Split, where the breakup of Yugoslavia has left its mark.

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 – tourism. Now his life is consumed by trying to solve a series of essentially unsolvable murders of tourists. Because the tourists are so widely despised, no one will help Ivan. Evidence disappears into the labyrinth of bureaucracy. He is humiliated in public and online. In the local press, his boss even labels him an “uhljeb”, the Croatian slur for a “lazy bureaucratic parasite”. All of this takes place in the city of Split, where the breakup of Yugoslavia has left its mark.

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 – tourism. Now his life is consumed by trying to solve a series of essentially unsolvable murders of tourists. Because the tourists are so widely despised, no one will help Ivan. Evidence disappears into the labyrinth of bureaucracy. He is humiliated in public and online. In the local press, his boss even labels him an “uhljeb”, the Croatian slur for a “lazy bureaucratic parasite”. All of this takes place in the city of Split, where the breakup of Yugoslavia has left its mark.

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 – tourism. Now his life is consumed by trying to solve a series of essentially unsolvable murders of tourists. Because the tourists are so widely despised, no one will help Ivan. Evidence disappears into the labyrinth of bureaucracy. He is humiliated in public and online. In the local press, his boss even labels him an “uhljeb”, the Croatian slur for a “lazy bureaucratic parasite”. All of this takes place in the city of Split, where the breakup of Yugoslavia has left its mark.

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 – tourism. Now his life is consumed by trying to solve a series of essentially unsolvable murders of tourists. Because the tourists are so widely despised, no one will help Ivan. Evidence disappears into the labyrinth of bureaucracy. He is humiliated in public and online. In the local press, his boss even labels him an “uhljeb”, the Croatian slur for a “lazy bureaucratic parasite”. All of this takes place in the city of Split, where the breakup of Yugoslavia has left its mark.

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 – tourism. Now his life is consumed by trying to solve a series of essentially unsolvable murders of tourists. Because the tourists are so widely despised, no one will help Ivan. Evidence disappears into the labyrinth of bureaucracy. He is humiliated in public and online. In the local press, his boss even labels him an “uhljeb”, the Croatian slur for a “lazy bureaucratic parasite”. All of this takes place in the city of Split, where the breakup of Yugoslavia has left its mark.

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 – tourism. Now his life is consumed by trying to solve a series of essentially unsolvable murders of tourists. Because the tourists are so widely despised, no one will help Ivan. Evidence disappears into the labyrinth of bureaucracy. He is humiliated in public and online. In the local press, his boss even labels him an “uhljeb”, the Croatian slur for a “lazy bureaucratic parasite”. All of this takes place in the city of Split, where the breakup of Yugoslavia has left its mark.

The latest from Travis Wilkerson

미국의 한 가족이 서부로 아포칼립스적 여행을 떠난다. 이들은 캠핑, 미니 골프, 수영, 야구 등을 하며 여름 휴가를 즐기는데, 뒤로는 멸종, 대학살, 그리고 전쟁을 떠올리게 하는 광경이 펼쳐진다. 총으로 땅을 빼앗아라. 그 땅을 총으로 만들어라. 그 총을 모든 사람의 머리에 겨눠라.

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 hurled into motion. This film is nearly wordless. In place of words, the enactment of violence against the images themselves, in a stagger towards commensurate aesthetics.

1946년 알래배마에서 백인 새뮤얼 브랜취가 흑인 빌 스팬을 살해하는 사건이 벌어졌다. 브랜취의 증손자인 윌커슨 감독은 후손들조차 거론하기를 거부하는 자신의 악명높은 조상을 조사해보기로 결심한다.

1946년 알래배마에서 백인 새뮤얼 브랜취가 흑인 빌 스팬을 살해하는 사건이 벌어졌다. 브랜취의 증손자인 윌커슨 감독은 후손들조차 거론하기를 거부하는 자신의 악명높은 조상을 조사해보기로 결심한다.

1946년 알래배마에서 백인 새뮤얼 브랜취가 흑인 빌 스팬을 살해하는 사건이 벌어졌다. 브랜취의 증손자인 윌커슨 감독은 후손들조차 거론하기를 거부하는 자신의 악명높은 조상을 조사해보기로 결심한다.

1946년 알래배마에서 백인 새뮤얼 브랜취가 흑인 빌 스팬을 살해하는 사건이 벌어졌다. 브랜취의 증손자인 윌커슨 감독은 후손들조차 거론하기를 거부하는 자신의 악명높은 조상을 조사해보기로 결심한다.

1946년 알래배마에서 백인 새뮤얼 브랜취가 흑인 빌 스팬을 살해하는 사건이 벌어졌다. 브랜취의 증손자인 윌커슨 감독은 후손들조차 거론하기를 거부하는 자신의 악명높은 조상을 조사해보기로 결심한다.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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. Please watch in silence.

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 its figurehead in the 1920s and 30s, William “Red” Hynes. Of him, we only see a face and a gesture, revolver pointed at the person photographing him. His mission? To track down, flush out and threaten communist activists. Infiltration and intimidation were the lot of this political militia purposely created to break any hint of social or political subversion.

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 to reveal the hidden costs of the United States' (and Canada's) most expensive and longest-running war. (TIFF)

"...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 electricity during the winter. Wilkerson does nothing to draw parallels between these two forms of injustice. Rather, by simply juxtaposing the women’s stories, we are able to see how systematic indifference to human life takes multiple forms, but comes back to the same root causes, and how we are indeed fighting the same war against the poor and disenfranchised at home and abroad – ici et ailleurs. – Michael Sicinski, Mubi Notebook.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A mysterious film. Nearly lost. A portrait of a 25 hour song. One hour for each year in the life of a friend.

National Archive: V.1 uses archival U.S. military footage to depict a series of aerial attacks on Vietnamese sites. Simple and affecting, the work shares an affinity with Bruce Conners Crossroads by giving viewers time to contemplate the tragedy of war.

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