After living undocumented in the US for 26 years, in Nowhere Near (2023), director Miko Revereza journeys back to the Philippines in an attempt to trace the source of the colonial ghosts causing his parents’ amnesia. Through an abstract odyssey into personal history à la Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil, Revereza works in a range of mediums to express the borderless aesthetic of statelessness. What results is an investigative documentary layered with the narration of his own novel, floating into the mysteries of psychogeographical disconnect with superimposed images and submerged family portraits. On the day of the film’s US premiere, Revereza […]
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The post Exorcising the Curse of the US: Miko Revereza on Nowhere Near first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 10/10/2023
- by Dylan Foley
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
After living undocumented in the US for 26 years, in Nowhere Near (2023), director Miko Revereza journeys back to the Philippines in an attempt to trace the source of the colonial ghosts causing his parents’ amnesia. Through an abstract odyssey into personal history à la Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil, Revereza works in a range of mediums to express the borderless aesthetic of statelessness. What results is an investigative documentary layered with the narration of his own novel, floating into the mysteries of psychogeographical disconnect with superimposed images and submerged family portraits. On the day of the film’s US premiere, Revereza […]
The post Exorcising the Curse of the US: Miko Revereza on Nowhere Near first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post Exorcising the Curse of the US: Miko Revereza on Nowhere Near first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 10/10/2023
- by Dylan Foley
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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