With Nowhere Near Revereza traces his disillusionment and likely permanent departure from the United States, eventually making his way to Oaxaca by way of Manila. In each locale, he experiences and deliberates on a complicated and at times contradictory sense of home, navigates relationships with loved ones, and tests the limits of art to represent such monumental transitions. In a further refinement of the diaristic style Revereza hones with his shorts and first feature, the early passages of the film are transfixing in their rhythmic, kinetic, and near free-form assemblage, abetted by sophisticated sound design and a rich score. It’s work that takes its time and permits various detours – a rememberance of the filmmaker’s youth in post-9/11 USA, the excavation of a family curse, consideration of the US occupation of the Philippines – but feels uniquely cumulative. (Andréa Picard)

• Sektion Section: Feature Films
• Programm Programme: Nowhere Near