BIO:

Erin Wilkerson, PhD, is an American guerrilla gardener turned feral filmmaker. She is the co-founder of the political art collective, Creative Agitation along with her partner, Travis Wilkerson. They have exhibited in the Venice Biennale, Locarno Film Festival, the Viennale, and the Berlinale, and their film, "Nuclear Family' (2021) was awarded Mención Especial at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, and is distributed by Arsenal (Berlin). Grounded in ecology thanks to her early professional work in landscape architecture, her solo practice explores global narratives, borderlands, and colonial extraction. Her international exhibitions include, "The Second Burial" (2023), which premiered at DOKUFEST, and streamed on MUBI. She has also exhibited at Prismatic Ground (New York), FICUNAM (Mexico), Arica Docs (Chile), and INTERSECCION (Spain). Her films often include mixed media work, which has also exhibited in galleries, including the solo show, “Nuclear Family: Fieldwork” at Foundación Luis Seoane. And she recently had a full retrospective of her films at Filmoteca Galicia, in Spain. Her methodology of feral filmmaking, which revisits the tactics of Third Cinema, as resistance to the Hollywood model was developed as part of her practice-led research PhD for Liverpool John Moores University. This resulted in the written dissertation, "Invasive Species" (2024), and feral film, “Strange Flower” (2025). As a continuation of her teaching for Liverpool John Moores University, the TransArt Institute, and film festival and arts institution masterclasses, she is currently a Lecturer in Media Arts/Visual Studies/Film Practice at Duke Kunshan University, where she teaches to a diverse student body comprised of  nearly 70 countries, and is chair of Cinematic Futures, the DKU film lab and festival.

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FILMOGRAPHY:

Features:

Snake People / Director / *work in progress*

Nuclear Family / Co-Director / 2021 / 93 min. / Documentary 
Machine Gun or Typewriter / Writing + Cinematography / 2015 / 60 min. / Documentary

Red Squad: The Communist Situation in California / Sound / 2013 / 60 min. / Documentary

 

Shorts:
Strange Flower / Director / 2025 / 30 min. / Docufiction

Plum(b)s / Editor / 2025 / 5 min. / Experimental Collaboration with Marie France Forcier

The Second Burial / Director / 2023 / 19 min. / Documentary 

Smoke Rides on the Wind / Director / 2022 / 13 min. / Documentary

Les Corps Evocateur(e)s / Director / 2022/ 13 min. / Experimental Performance

The Full Benefits of Aboriginal Equality / Director / 2021 / 3 min. / Documentary
I Am Present / Director / 2021 / 13 min. / Experimental Performance

Silence Across Disputed Borders / Co-Director / 2020 / 20 min. / Experimental Performance with Aura        Arreola 

Scents That Carry Through Walls / Director / 2020 / 8 min. / Documentary

When the Days Cool Down / Co-Director / 2018 / 3 min. / Music Video for Lorkin O’Reilly