Zodiac Killer Project - Director Charlie Shackleton

Filmmaker Charlie Shackleton was hot on the trail of the next great American true crime documentary—a riveting account of a highway patrolman's quixotic effort to identify and capture the infamous Zodiac Killer. Shackleton devised a plan, began collecting interviews, and shot “evocative B-roll” footage of ghostly California freeways and parking lots where the killer may have once lurked. And then the project fell apart, leaving Shackleton with fragments of the unfinished film and time to ruminate on shortcuts and signifiers of the ubiquitous genre. A witty and beautifully assembled deep dive into our obsession with serial killers and the stories we tell about them, Shackleton’s ZODIAC KILLER PROJECT emerges  from the ash heap to probe and deconstruct the form with the incisive eye of a true crime connoisseur. Our guest Charlie Shackleton’s last project, the performance film As Mine Exactly, won the Immersive Art & XR Award at the 2022 BFI London Film Festival and went on to have extended runs at the Barbican Centre in London and the Museum of the Moving Image in New York.