Travis Wilkerson

A chance meeting in Havana with the legendary Cuban filmmaker Santiago Alvarez changed the course of Travis Wilkerson’s life. His internationally recognized body of filmmaking crosses boundaries with documentary and fiction, performance, and activism. At the epicenter of his work is the ongoing search for meeting points of aesthetic eloquence and political engagement, produced with an absolute modesty of material resources, as self-sufficiently as possible. In 2015, Sight & Sound called Wilkerson “the political conscience of American cinema.” His films have screened at hundreds of festivals worldwide, including Berlin, Sundance, Toronto, and Locarno. He is the recipient of an UnDo Fellowship, Creative Capital Award, Rockefeller Grant, as well as grants from the Canada Council for the Arts. In 2025, he was included in the 100th class of Guggenheim Fellows. “An Injury to One ” (2002)– was named one of the best avant-garde films of the decade by Film Comment and a “political-cinema landmark” by the LA Times. The New Yorker called “Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?” (2018) one of the “Sixty-Two Films That Shaped the Art of Documentary Filmmaking.”

在哈瓦那的一次偶然相遇中，传奇的古巴电影制片人Santiago Alvarez改变了Travis Wilkerson的生活轨迹。他在国际上备受认可的电影创作横跨纪录片与虚构故事、表演与社会行动主义的界限。他的创作核心是持续探索审美表达与政治参与的交汇点，并始终以尽可能自给自足的方式、用极其简朴的物质资源完成作品。2015年，《视与听》（Sight & Sound）杂志称Wilkerson是“美国电影的政治良知”。他的电影曾在柏林、圣丹斯、多伦多、洛迦诺等全球数百个电影节上展映。他曾获得UnDo奖学金、创意资本奖（Creative Capital Award）、洛克菲勒奖，以及来自加拿大艺术委员会的资助。2025年，他被列入第100届古根海姆奖学金获得者名单。

Wilkerson的代表作之一《伤一人即伤所有人》（An Injury to One，2002）被《电影评论》（Film Comment）评为“十年间最佳先锋电影之一”，并被《洛杉矶时报》誉为“政治电影的里程碑”。2018年的作品《你是否在想，是谁开的枪？》（Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?）则被《纽约客》评为“塑造纪录片艺术的62部电影之一”。