One Work: Miko Revereza’s “No Data Plan”

Miko Revereza’s film No Data Plan (2019) opens with a scene at an Amtrak platform, where commuters wait in various poses: squatting over their luggage, shifting weight between their feet, leaning over to squint at the track’s end on the horizon. A train comes—even its arrival is sluggish—and the crowd crawls toward the doors.
Revereza, who holds the camera, boards the train heading from Los Angeles to Chicago, the first leg of a trip to New York. His journey is prolonged