Nowhere Near
Miko Revereza
Past event
- Price
- $12*
- Genre
- Film/Video
- Season
- Winter/Spring 2024
- DATE
- JAN 22
- TIME
- MON, 8 PM
- RUNTIME
- Approx. 95 minutes
- COUNTRY
- Philippines, Mexico, USA
- PROGRAM
- Not yet available
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About
Through the lenses of Miko Revereza—an undocumented Filipino immigrant in the US—this poetic essay film features their experience and disillusionment of their future in the country and the decision to return to an estranged homeland. Moving into fragmented streams of consciousness, Nowhere Near tracks down the origin of a family curse, retracing the generational harm of the post-9/11 era, the US occupation of the Philippines, and the spiritual conquest of the Spanish Empire. The film is considered a “psychogeographical journey” by Revereza, traveling through downtown Los Angeles to the American Midwest, and back to his familial home of Pangasinan, Philippines. Nowhere Near is a years-long diary toward understanding the root of their migration to the United States, though ultimately, this odyssey deviates far from the expected course.
Presented in English and Tagalog with English subtitles.
The program includes a pre-screening 10 minute sound performance, as well as post-screening talk with Miko Revereza (remotely), moderated by Jheanelle Brown.
[Revereza] has carved out a distinctive fingerprint through impulsive documentation that grants the ability to access the unknown.
—
Amir George, SEEN Journal
The Jack H. Skirball Series is organized by Jheanelle Brown.
about the artist
Miko Revereza
Born in 1988 in Manilla, Philippines, Miko Revereza is a filmmaker raised in California. His films DROGA! (2014), Disintegration 93-96 (2017), No Data Plan (2018), Distancing (2019), and El Lado Quieto (2021) have widely screened at festivals such as Locarno Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, New York Film Festival’s Projections, IDFA, and Film at Lincoln Center’s Art of the Real. His debut feature film, No Data Plan, is recognized with such honors as the Sheffield DocFest Art Award and San Diego Asian Film Festival Emerging Filmmaker Award, as well as being listed in BFI Sight and Sound Magazine’s “50 Best Films of 2019,” Hyperallergic’s “Top 12 Documentary and Experimental Films of 2019,” and CNN Philippines’ “Best Filipino Films of 2019.” In 2018, Filmmaker Magazine listed Revereza as one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” He’s also a 2019 Flaherty Seminar featured filmmaker, an MFA graduate of Bard College Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, and a recipient of the 2021 Vilcek Prize in Filmmaking.
