 Each film is based on the reinvention of paintings and etchings by Francisco Goya and Caspar David Friedrich and adapted with Napoleonic Gothic narratives.Recent work has also included "Uber Memoria X" composed of ten large scale video works 'where Wilson re-addresses Australian Colonial Painting through video art'[10]

In 2013 he released the feature-length movie "51 Paintings" filmed in Germany, England, and Australia between 2006-2013 which is the first of five planned films in the series The 51 Paintings Suite.The second film from the series "The Tailor of Autumn" was released in 2015[11].