Archive: Year 2021
20 FOR 20: REPLAY
Did You Wonder Who Fired The Gun?
Director
Travis Wilkerson
Producer
Travis Wilkerson
Cinematographer
Travis Wilkerson
Editor
Travis Wilkerson
Website
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.
Director
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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