Travis Wilkerson
MOVIE REVIEW
Through the Graves the Wind Is Blowing (2024)
It’s time to become acquainted with the filmography of Travis Wilkerson. In “Through the Graves the Wind is Blowing,” his 10th film, he manages to combine a personal experience of life under fascism, a history of the fight against fascism in Croatia, the complicated history of its city Split as expressed by its soccer team and the life story and recent career history of a local policeman named Ivan Perić. Originally he planned to make a movie about the disintegration of Yugoslavia, but as he says in his introduction, “How in the world can you do a thing like that.” The answer is, like this. And the cherry on top is it’s very, very good.