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Travis Wilkerson
Travis Wilkerson (born: 1969, Denver, Colorado) is a film maker, performance artist, writer, and teacher. Influenced by a chance mentor ship with Cuban film maker Santiago Alvarez, whom he made an homage to in his found footage film, Accelerated Underdevelopment. In the vein of Third Cinema, he has remained steadfastly political as he continues to annihilate the boundaries of traditional documentary.

His work has shown around the world, including premieres at Sundance, Locarno, Toronto, Vienna, and Rotterdam. His best known piece, An Injury to One, an agit-prop film about the murder of I.W.W. rabble-rouser, Frank Little, was named one of the best avant-garde films of the decade by Film Comment. He introduced performance art to the Sundance Film Festival with Proving Ground, a new media assault illustrating the history of bombing. His portrait of the Vietnam War, as described by his veteran father, Distinguished Flying Cross, won jury prizes from both Yamagata and Cinema du Reel. National Archive Vol. 1 is a brutal view of the carpet bombing of Vietnam as seen from the view finder of an aerial bomber, and has shown at the Louvre.

His writing tends to take the form of the manifesto, and has been published in Kino! , Cineaste, and Senses of Cinema. He argues for the democratization of film making through a return to analogue. He is also the founding Editor of Now: A Journal of Urgent Praxis.

He has taught film making at CalARTs and the Univerity of Colorado, and is currently the Visiting Fellow of Media Praxis for the Pomona College Media Guild.

Filmography
For Michael Brown (2014) Los Angeles Red Squad: The Communist Situation in California (2013) Far From Afghanistan - Omnibus, segment: Fragments of Dissolution (2012) Distinguished Flying Cross (2011) Pluto Declaration - part of Orbit(film) (2011) Sand Creek Equation (2011) Proving Ground - Live Performance (2007) Who Killed Cock Robin? (2005) Superior Elegy (2003) An Injury to One (2002) National Archive V.1 (2001) Accelerated Under-Development: In the Idiom of Santiago Alvarez (1999)

Links
Now: A Journal of Urgent Praxis Wilkerson's Pomona College Page Manifesto - Los Angeles Red Squad LA Times on An Injury to One Wilkerson's Vimeo Wilkerson's IMDb