LUX is delighted to welcome Miko Revereza and his work to the LUX collection.
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.
In March 2025, we had a pleasure of presenting ‘Nowhere Near’ as part of an online exhibition. The quote below is taken from an interview with Revereza published in conjunction with the exhibition. You can read the full interview here.
“When the camera is handheld, the body movement is the camera movement is the moving image. It’s personal in that I’m holding it, my body is informing the shake, the particular frame. I like the term “moving image”, because that’s what it is, it’s how the image moves. But I also like the idea of moving in the sense of relocating, it’s the relocating image.” – Miko Revereza
We proudly now distribute 6 works by Revereza, produced since 2014. If you are interested in screening any of these works, please get in touch with distribution[at]lux.org.uk.
