Special sneak preview of a new work in progress, presented as a singular live documentary!
An Injury to All is both the prequel to An Injury to One (2001) and its urgent postscript. It traces the life of I.W.W. Organizer Frank Little before his arrival and infamous murder in Butte, Montana. Following his peripatetic, restless journey from his childhood in Oklahoma to his astonishing rise as a visionary organizer criss-crossing the American West, struggling for immigrant rights, for militant labor, for free speech and always and forever against the social catastrophe of war—his is a singular and irreplaceable story of American resistance and the inspiring vision of a different kind of world. Most of all, it restores his incompatible life—rather than the horror of his eventual death—to the place it always deserved to be. A ferocious antidote to the present moment and conscious riposte to the 250th anniversary of the USA.
TRT: 90 min
In person: Travis Wilkerson
"One of the 20 best filmmakers of the decade." —Film Comment
"A visionary 21st century film artist." —Daniel Clarkson Fisher, New Politics
"The political conscience of 21st century American independent cinema." —Neil Young, Sight and Sound
"Here lies the exceptional nature of [Wilkerson's] work: the refusal to conceive and make films as an isolated artistic activity with the world of cinema itself as its only referent." —Celluloid Liberation Front, Cinema Scope
"Wilkerson is creating works for the live realm that incorporate or intersect with documentary, a hybridized practice that itself elasticizes between intimacy and distance, lecture-like presentation and confessional multimedia monologue... As with strictly cinematic nonfiction, there’s a base-level engagement with factual reality in these theatrical pieces, after which anything goes." —Eric Hynes, Film Comment
(Available to download after screening date)