Travis Wilkerson performs "Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?"

A Film Screening & Live Performance

Tuesday, July 23, 2019 - 8:00pm

 Travis Wilkerson performs "Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?"

Screening in partnership with LA Filmforum and Acropolis Cinema

The Los Angeles premiere of the film, in a rare (and possibly the last) live

performance version!

Tickets: $12 General Admissions/ $6 Students & Seniors/ Free for VPES Members.

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“In 1946, my great-grandfather murdered a black man named Bill Spann and got away with it.” So begins Travis Wilkerson’s critically acclaimed documentary, "Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?", which takes us on a journey through the American South to uncover the truth behind a horrific incident and the societal mores that allowed it to happen. Acting as narrator and guide, Wilkerson spins a strange, frightening tale, incorporating scenes from To Kill a Mockingbird, the music of Janelle Monáe and Phil Ochs, and the story of Rosa Parks’ investigation into the Recy Taylor case, as well as his own family history, for a gripping investigation into our collective past and its echoes into the present day.

 

One of the leading non-fiction filmmakers today, Travis Wilkerson returns to Los Angeles Filmforum and makes his first appearance at the Velaslavasay Panorama for the Los Angeles premiere of his widely-praised feature film "Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?" Originally developed in part as a live performance, the film now is distributed normally, but we will be presenting it with Wilkerson performing live for what may be the last time.

A bracing excavation of family history, white supremacy, and the widespread traumas generated by thr criminal treatment of African-Americans in America’s past and present, Wilkerson renders an ugly and irredeemable episode from his family’s past into a radical form of poetic activist cinema. A haunting continuation of his remarkable series of films stretching back to the deeply affecting masterwork An Injury to One.

Tickets available here: https://wilkerson.bpt.me/

This event is a partnership with LAFilmforum and Acropolis Cinema

https://www.lafilmforum.org/

https://www.acropoliscinema.com/

Press

"Inside the Multi-Generational Injustices of White Supremacy" via Hyperallergic

"Travis Wilkerson Performing Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?" via Artillery Magazine

"Movie Pick: Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?" via LA Weekly

ForYourArt

"Travis Wilkerson Performing Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?" via Discover Los Angeles