Erin Wilkerson

Through the Graves the Wind Is Blowing

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.

Machine Gun or Typewriter?

A haunted man desperately searches for his lost love through an illegal pirate radio broadcast. Punk-agit-noir.

Machine Gun or Typewriter?

A haunted man desperately searches for his lost love through an illegal pirate radio broadcast. Punk-agit-noir.

The Second Burial

The Second Burial tells of the two marked graves of the pirate Christopher Columbus, and generations of indigenous peoples, with none. An essay for the children who never left the Residential Schools, told via the colonial plunder in Barcelona and the civil war that followed, alongside Wilkerson's personal family heirlooms, brought from Europe to the former Mexican territory of California, one hundred years ago. Colonial violence against the other, also manifests against its own. And if left unchecked, it has the potential to destroy us all.

Nuclear Family

A family trip across the American West becomes an essay film about nuclear threats past and present. The apocalypse is omnipresent, and the journey shows that destruction has long since become inscribed into the landscape and history of the country.