RETROSPECTIVE: TRAVIS WILKERSON
DID YOU WONDER WHO FIRED THE GUN?
Directors
Travis Wilkerson
Producers
Travis Wilkerson
Cinematographers
Travis Wilkerson
Editors
Travis Wilkerson
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2017
United States
70 min
Color
In 1946, S.E. Branch—a white Southern racist, and the artist’s great-grandfather—murdered Bill Spann, a black man, in rural Alabama. The murder has become hushed and hidden family lore. When Wilkerson sets out to unravel the mystery, he encounters obstacle upon obstacle—destroyed records, everyone refusing to talk. He’s accused of bringing shame upon the family, shaking up old trouble nobody wants. Soon enough, his life is threatened too.
A chance meeting in Havana with legendary Cuban film propagandist Santiago Álvarez changed the course of Travis Wilkerson’s life. He now makes films in the tradition of the “third cinema,” wedding politics to form in an indivisible manner. In 2015, Sight & Sound called Wilkerson “the political conscience of American cinema.”
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