His research focus is Documentary Film, and forms of Third Cinema. At Duke Kunshan University, he teaches Documentary Film, the Videographic Essay, and Docu-Fiction. His films have screened at hundreds of venues and festivals worldwide, including Berlin, Sundance, Toronto, and Locarno. The New Yorker called “Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?” one of the "Sixty-Two Films That Shaped the Art of Documentary Filmmaking." "An Injury to One "-- was named one of the best avant-garde films of the decade by Film Comment and a "political-cinema landmark" by the LA Times. 

Wilkerson has a B.A. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Michigan and an M.F.A. in Filmmaking from CalArts.