“Zodiac Killer Project,” the fascinating feature documentary from director Charlie Shackleton, is nothing like what it sounds. For one thing, it’s not really about the infamous Zodiac Killer — though ...

No mystery is solved in Charlie Shackleton’s essayistic doodad “Zodiac Killer Project,” but the true-crime genre itself is certainly staked out and interrogated like a prime suspect. Then again, there ...

It’s worth mourning the films we’ll never get to see: the unfunded epics, the unmarketable art films, perhaps even the unengaging streaming product. Filmmaker Charlie Shackleton faced that grief when ...

The British experimental filmmaker Charlie Shackleton is probably best known stateside for his protest film Paint Drying. A ten hour and seven minute compilation of the very thing named on the tin, ...

Film still from Zodiac Killer Project (2025), directed by Charlie Shackleton (courtesy Sundance Institute) In his new film, director Charlie Shackleton muses that it’s surprising that there hasn’t yet ...

In 2012, an autobiographical novel by Lyndon Lafferty titled “The Zodiac Killer Cover-Up: The Silenced Badge” was published. Lafferty was a regular highway patrol agent until one day, a strange ...

I’ve never been a huge fan of true crime. Before I understood what media literacy meant—before I understood that media broadly yields meaning, not all of it reasonable—my reluctance to dive into the ...

Lately, the hype machine has gone into overdrive about the Gizmo Project. As you may know, the Gizmo Project is an open-standards initiative from the folks who built SIPphone VoIP platform- one which ...

"Zodiac Killer Project," the fascinating feature documentary from director Charlie Shackleton, is nothing like what it sounds ...