Directed by Miko Revereza • 2019 • United States
Having lived as an undocumented person in the United States for over twenty years, Filipino American filmmaker Miko Revereza sets out on a three day journey by train from Los Angeles to New York—an anxious odyssey through a succession of transit zones, ID checks, and Border Patrol raids, as seen through the smudged windows of an Amtrak car. Interweaving reflections on his mother’s personal history with a diaristic account of his trip, Revereza crafts a quietly profound meditation on rootlessness, alienation, and what the director calls the “modern fugitivism” of the undocumented experience.
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Wisdom Gone Wild
Directed by Rea Tajiri • 2022 • United States
Starring Rose Noda, Rea TajiriIn this moving and original reflection on mortality and transformation, Rea Tajiri partners with her mother, Rose Tajiri Noda, to create a film about the final sixteen years of her life as a person living with dementia...