View this email in your browser <https://mailchi.mp/lafilmforum/no-data-plan-248302?e=a04be70c7a> 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 immigrantsanxieties 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/ <https://lafilmforum.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9b114d2d0f9dc5e6729 1271e&id=ca633a00db&e=a04be70c7a> Vox Magazine article: https://www.voxmagazine.com/news/features/miko-revereza-true-false-2019-no-d ata-plan/article_af2adb02-2e43-11e9-a6bf-972214048dc0.html <https://lafilmforum.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9b114d2d0f9dc5e6729 1271e&id=f49d52db83&e=a04be70c7a> Tickets: Sliding scale, as you can afford: $0 - $25 available through Brown Paper Tickets at https://nodataplan.bpt.me <https://lafilmforum.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9b114d2d0f9dc5e6729 1271e&id=7136fd6b5c&e=a04be70c7a> only! Your purchase will get you the web address & password to the film and the log-in information to the Q&A. For more information: www.lafilmforum.org or 323-377-7238. 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 https://mubi.com/lafilmforum 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/ The Echo Park Film Center presents Marvelous Movie Mondays Ongoing, online only! https://www.facebook.com/echoparkfilmcenter <https://lafilmforum.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9b114d2d0f9dc5e6729 1271e&id=e8c3cae452&e=a04be70c7a> Each Monday, the Echo Park Film Center Facebook page transforms into a little cyberlivingroom where you can watch a marvelous movie, read a lovely curatorial statement, make comments, be inspired to go out make your own things, and just plain enjoy the wonder that is cinema! A new guest curator spins flicks each month. 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