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Who Killed Cock Robin?  An experimental narrative about a young man living in Butte, Montana whose life echoes that of Buttes (and Americas) industrial decline.
Selected Works Film Accelerated Under-Development: In the Idiom of Santiago Alvarez (2003)
Superior Elegy (2003) An Injury to One (2002) National Archive V.1 (2001) Self Portrait as Conveyed to customs Officer Desmond on the Occasion of my Arrest for Traveling to Cuba (1999) Accomplishments Travis Wilkersons work has screened at scores of festivals worldwide, including Sundance, Toronto, Rotterdam, Marseille, Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival, Hot Docs, Vienna International Film Festival and Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. He has received the Documentary Prize from the New York Underground Film Festival, the Innovation Award at the Chicago International Documentary Film Festival, the Narrative Integrity Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Jurors Choice-First Prize at the Black Maria Film & Video Festival, and the Gold Prize at the Big Muddy Film Festival in Illinois, among others. He is a co-founder of extremelowfrequency, a digitally based micro-distributor of radical cinema and culture.
Education 2001 MFA, Film and Video, California Institute of the Arts
1994 BA, Comparative Studies in National Cultures, College of Literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor News January, February, March 2007 Travis Wilkerson presented Proving Ground as a live
performance at the
Sundance Film
Festival in January. Combining video, text, live music
and commentary, Wilkerson will explore the notion of technological
prowess outstripping our moral and ethical development. December 2006 Travis Wilkerson will present Proving Ground as a live performance at the Sundance Film Festival in
January, as part of their
New Frontier on Main showcase. Combining video, text, live music and commentary,
Wilkerson will explore the notion of technological prowess outstripping our moral and ethical development. April 2006 Travis Wilkersons experimental documentary An Injury To One, about the lynching
of a labor activist in Butte, Montana at the turn of the century, will screen at
the Museum of Modern Art in New York in May. Interview What do you do when you get stuck? I almost always scan the bookcases and do a little reading, though almost never about film. Mostly history or political theory and a lot of Brecht. I try to remind myself of the bigger picture. And if that doesn't work, I play a game or two of Donkey Kong. My current high score is 108,500, which is pretty good. |
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