This online exhibition is now extended until 20 March
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(listening time: 7 minutes 30 seconds)
LUX and LUX Scotland is delighted to present an online exhibition of Miko Revereza’s feature length documentary ‘Nowhere Near’ (2023) from 7–16 March 2025.
Register here to access the online screening of ‘Nowhere Near’.
Like many films in Miko Revereza’s work, ‘Nowhere Near’ (2023) is, at its heart, a road movie, one that finally resolves the riddle he set himself: ‘How does an undocumented documentary filmmaker document themself?’
The film follows Revereza’s decisive moment of leaving the U.S., abandoning his DACA[1] pathway for a one-way ticket to the Philippines – a country he left as a seven-year-old. In this deeply personal work, he explores generational memory and its relationship to land, retracing his family’s place in a colonial legacy. His journey becomes an odyssey of self-understanding, haunted by loss, offering no straight answers.
Through unstable handheld camerawork, Revereza reveals the filmmaker’s inner conflicts as he navigates the sparse and messy ruins of his ancestral past. His approach intertwines memory with the physicality of landscapes, exploring how places both remember and forget, destroy and renew.
Central to Revereza’s practice is the concept of smuggling—both as a mindset and a method. As an undocumented filmmaker, he becomes a “smuggler of meaning”, transporting family traumas, histories, and unresolved questions across borders and into spaces that might otherwise silence his voice. Making film from his position of exile, he transforms displacement into a creative force that confronts pressing questions about migration.
‘Nowhere Near’ brings together personal stories, cultural memories, and political realities in ways that resist coherence. Instead, it shows us how everyday moments of incongruity can mirror larger systems of power and exclusion.
This online exhibition is accompanied by a participatory online workshop led by the artist, and a publication of an interview conducted right after the world premiere of the film in September 2023.
[1] Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) allows young immigrants, sometimes referred to as dreamers, who grew up in the U.S. to seek temporary protection from deportation and to have the ability to work. This was an executive action that only deferred removal and does not confer any change in legal status to the immigrants who meet the eligibility requirements.
Online Screening
7 – 16 March 2025
‘Nowhere Near’ (2023) by Miko Revereza
Duration: 96 minutes
Use the link below or button on the top of the page to register. You will receive a link to access the film.
Online Workshop
Saturday 15 March 2025, 3-5pm (GMT) on Zoom
Whooshy experimental stuff: A participatory workshop on handheld cinematography in artists’ moving image
Learn more about the workshop here
Interview with Miko Revereza
Tatum Howey and Sun Park spoke to Miko Revereza the day after the World Premiere of ‘Nowhere Near’ at the Open City Documentary Festival in 2023.
Read the interview with Miko Revereza here
About the artist
Miko Revereza (b. 1988. Manila, Philippines) is an award winning experimental filmmaker who has made a series of personal documentaries informed by his experiences with migration and exile; DROGA! (2014), Disintegration 93 – 96 (2017), No Data Plan (2018), Distancing (2019), El Lado Quieto (2021) and Nowhere Near (2023). These works have been screened at festivals and institutions such as Locarno, TIFF, NYFF, and MoMA. No Data Plan is recognized with such honors as the Sheffield Doc Fest Art Award, as well as being listed in BFI Sight & 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. Nowhere Near (recipient of Hubert Bals Fund) was among Film Comment Best Undistributed Films of 2023 and CNN Philippines Best Filipino Films of 2023. Revereza was included in Filmmaker Magazine’s New Faces of Independent Cinema, a Flaherty Seminar featured filmmaker, and holds an MFA from Bard College.
Accessibility Information
Miko Revereza’s ‘Nowhere Near’ is available with open captions. (captions will be available from Tue 11 March)
Sensory Note : Contains handheld camera work with shaking or unsteady movement throughout the film.
Content Note : Reference to state violence and deportation.
If you have any access needs to experience our online exhibition, please email us at events[at]lux.org.uk or call us at +44(0)20 3141 2960.
