BIO:

American guerrilla gardener turned feral filmmaker and visual artist, Erin Michele Wilkerson, is the co-founder of the political art collective Creative Agitation. She has exhibited in the Venice Biennale, the Viennale, the Berlinale, and was honored with a retrospective at Filmoteca Galicia and a solo gallery show, “Nuclear Family: Fieldwork,” at Foundación Luis Seoane. Her co-directed film, “Nuclear Family” (2021), co-directed with her partner, Travis Wilkerson, was awarded Mencion Especial at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, screened in 20+ festivals, and is distributed by Arsenal (Berlin). Grounded in ecology thanks to her early professional work in landscape architecture, her solo practice is deeply rooted in the exploration of global narratives and has exhibited internationally including, “The Second Burial” (2023), which streamed on MUBI and has shown at Prismatic Ground (New York), FICUNAM (Mexico City), Arica Docs (Chile), DOKUFEST (Kosovo), INTERSECCION (Spain). She developed the methodology of ‘feral filmmaking,’ or a wilding of cinema through an intensive theoretical study of Invasive Species, for her PhD in Research and Practice from Liverpool John Moores University, in partnership with the TransArt Institute. She is currently a Lecturer in Media and Arts and Assistant Professor of the Practice in Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke Kunshan University where she teaches to a diverse student body comprised of nearly 70 countries, and is the founder and director of the university's, Cinematic Futures Film Festival.

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FILMOGRAPHY:

Features:

Falling Lantern, Falling Sky / 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