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 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 mys...
Exorcising the Curse of the US: Miko Revereza on Nowhere Near
Filmmaker Magazine - 10 Oct 2023 19:45
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 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 mys...
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