Travis Wilkerson — Director (6)

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Through the Graves the Wind Is Blowing (2024)
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特拉维斯·威尔克森 actor: 特拉维斯·威尔克森 / Ivan Peric …
other title: 风吹过坟墓 / 무덤들 사이로 바람이 불고
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.

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Distinguished Flying Cross (2011)
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other title: 飞行优异十字勋章
It asks a simple question, also quite complex: what is a good man to do in a war that is clearly wrong? At the film’s core is the story of the medal itself: a fabricated account that nonetheless describes an inarguable heroism. The stories are interconnected by reels of extraordinary color combat footage, shot by soldiers themselves and edited in-camera, unearthed from the National Archives in Washington.

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An Injury to One (2002)
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AN INJURY TO ONE provides a corrective—and absolutely compelling—glimpse of a particularly volatile moment in early 20th century American labor history: the rise and fall of Butte, Montana. Specifically, it chronicles the mysterious death of Wobbly organizer Frank Little, a story whose grisly details have taken on a legendary status in the state. Much of the extant evidence is inscribed upon the landscape of Butte and its surroundings. Thus, a connection is drawn between the unsolved murder of Little, and the attempted murder of the town itself. Butte's history was entirely shaped by its exploitation by the Anaconda Mining Company, which, at the height of WWI, produced ten percent of the world's copper from the town's depths. War profiteering and the company's extreme indifference to the safety of its employees (mortality rates in the mines were higher than in the trenches of Europe) led to Little's arrival. "The agitator" found in the desperate, agonized miners overwhelming support for his ideas, which included the abolishment of the wage system and the establishment of a socialist commonwealth. In August 1917, Little was abducted by still-unknown assailants who hung him from a railroad bridge. Pinned to his chest was a note that read 3'-7'-77", dimensions of a Montana grave. Eight thousand people attended his funeral, the largest in Butte's history. The murder provides AN INJURY TO ONE with a taut, suspenseful narrative, but it isn't the only story. Butte's history is bound with the entire history of the American left, the rise of McCarthyism, the destruction of the environment, and even the birth of the detective novel. Former Pinkerton detective Dashiell Hammett was rumored to have been involved in the murder, and later depicted it in Red Harvest.

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Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? (2017)
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★ 6.0 5 ratings
特拉维斯·威尔克森 actor: 特拉维斯·威尔克森 / Ed Vaughn
other title: 想知道是谁开的枪吗?
以导演崔维斯威克尔森的家族秘辛出发,探索1946年祖父枪杀非裔美国人的真相,同时叩问集体失忆的国家历史,再创转型正义议题的另一经典之作。 从外曾祖父枪杀黑人的故事开始,导演踏上回访70年前凶案与家丑的公路之旅。然而资料佚失、相关人士记忆拼凑扑朔迷离,奔波在大城小镇之间,遭遇重重困难与疑云,恰巧勾勒出美国数十年来黑权运动的未竟之业。影片节奏与视觉风格鲜明,佐以黑权运动著名歌曲声声重磅质问,为这些历史无名者刻下姓名。