[Frameworks] No Data Plan, by Miko Revereza, virtual screening!

Sat May 9 18:01:04 UTC 2020

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  Filmforum Hosts Virtual Screening of
No Data Plan, by Miko Revereza, May 7-9
Q&A with Revereza on Saturday May 9

  No Data Plan, by Miko Revereza

  Los Angeles Filmforum presents
No Data Plan, by Miko Revereza
Virtual Screening Access: Thursday May 7, 4:00 am - Saturday May 9, 11:30 pm
Virtual Post-Screening Conversation with Miko Revereza: Saturday TBD
On an internet connection near you!

Los Angeles Filmforum presents No Data Plan (Miko Revereza, 2018). The film
interrogates how to document oneself when the state marks you as a nonbeing.
Within the grey interior of a train, Revereza considers surveillance,
mobility, love, and the necessity of flight, employing the most ubiquitous
documenting tool - a phone.

³Revereza shoots passing landscapes and incidental details with equal
curiosity, intuitively capturing the rhythms and longueurs of long-distance
train travel, as well as the anxieties of anonymous immigrants‹anxieties
conveyed in overheard phone calls, encounters with ticket takers, and
eventually, the presence of Border Patrol officers. Quiet, contemplative,
and legitimately brave, No Data Plan is that rarest of things: a personal
film with real world consequences.²  Jordan Cronk, from Interview with Miko
Revereza in Film Comment, by Jordan Cronk
https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/interview-miko-revereza/
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Vox Magazine article:
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Screening:
No Data Plan 
Miko Revereza
2018, HD, color, 70 minutes
A voiceless narrator rehashes details about his mother¹s affair as he
crosses America by train. ³Mama has two phone numbers. We do not talk about
immigration on her Obama phone. For that we use the other number with no
data plan.² The linear train ride moving from Los Angeles to New York
diverges into unruly directions of consciousness. A multiplicity of voices
share thoughts, dreams and histories evoking images far away from the
enclosed spaces of this train's interior. While capturing these landscapes
and interiors through his lens, the moving images evidently illustrate an
undocumented subjectivity, a site of precarious movement, migration and
fugitivism in America.

Director¹s Statement
A giant, loud container full of people, luggage, sewage and microwavable
food. For 3 days I stared at moving light passing through the residue on its
windows like one long dolly shot from coast to coast. Los Angeles to New
York, the great American travelogue in reverse. From its rear window the
tracks look like film strips. 16:9 intermodal shipping containers passing
narrowly 5 or 8 feet from heads resting on windows sleeping. The Milky Way
galaxy seems so small compared to its far reaching tentacles. A spectre that
migrates mountains, trees, crude oil, plastics, glass, French fries and
footwear. Everything organized is in displacement. The AC puts me to sleep.
I close my eyes and the motion of passing scenery continues. I dream I am at
an airport in Manila. I wake up in another state. There are 2 white Border
Patrol vehicles pulled up at both ends of the next station +1 unmarked car.
The plainclothes officer with the walkie talkie commands the other 2. They
are right outside my window now. At this point my slow and steady camera
movements breaks down. The image stabilizer fails in my hands as if the
camera suddenly becomes self aware of it¹s immigration status.

Miko Revereza (b.1988 Manila, Philippines) is an experimental filmmaker and
undocumented immigrant. Since relocating from Manila as a child, he has
lived illegally in the United States for over 25 years. This life long
struggle with documentation, assimilation and statelessness informs his
films, DROGA! (2014), DISINTEGRATION 93-96 (2017) and his debut feature, No
data plan (2018). Miko¹s films have been widely screened and exhibited
internationally at festivals such as, International Film Festival Rotterdam,
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, International Short Film
Festival Oberhausen, True/False Film Festival, Images Festival, and Berwick
Film & Media Arts Festival. DISINTEGRATION 93-96 was featured and streamed
on MUBI.com. He is listed as Filmmaker Magazine¹s 2018 25 New Faces of
Independent Cinema.

  No Data Plan, by Mike Revereza

  One advantage of virtual screenings is that you can attend a show anywhere
in the world!   

There are no end of online experimental and documentary film viewing
resources now available.  I¹m listing some below, and have added more since
our last email. You can find plenty more.

For more online events:
First, a list originated by our friend Kate Lain, called Cabin Fever, and
added to by many people is available at:
http://www.katemakesfilms.com/cabinfever/
This one contains the most work in an experimental vein.

Cabin Fever and multiple other sources are listed at Hyperallergic:
https://hyperallergic.com/548978/tired-of-netflix-stream-experimental-films-
and-video-art/

There are more listed at Maysles Cinema. After filmmaker resources is a list
of film sources.  Many are the same as listed at Hyperallergic; some differ:
https://www.maysles.org/films-and-resources
MoMA¹s Department of Film created a comprehensive streaming list to indulge
any cinephile¹s needs;
https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/296

Deals on Streaming Channels:

MUBI
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MUBI has offered Filmforum followers three months free if you sign up at the
link!  MUBI is a curated film streaming channel, with one film added and one
removed each day, and each film available for one month.  The past three
days they¹ve added Wang Bing¹s Dead Souls, in three parts.  Along with Béla
Tarr's Sátántangó available through the UCLA Film & Television Archive, you
can knock off a couple of films longer than seven hours in the coming days!

OVID has an amazing selection of independent documentaries available for
streaming.  The Maysles Cinema had the opportunity to creat a selection of
docs that reflect its focus on observational filmmaking, are part of our
family of filmmakers or expand our understanding of the documentary form and
its dialectic.
Use discount code "3FOR15" to get three months of OVID for $15 and check out
these streaming docs while our doors are closed!  https://www.ovid.tv/

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