ABSTRACT This essay focuses on the Filipino American filmmaker Miko Revereza, who is “out” about his undocumented status, in order to document the possibilities of counter-assimilationist expression by migrants who are undocumented. In his awardwinning autobiographical film Disintegration 93-96, Revereza uses footage from the glitchy VHS “video letters” that his family recorded and sent from California to relatives in the Philippines in the 1990s. In contrast with the model of the ideal DREAMer, who integrates into the state, Revereza creates an aesthetic of imperfection and a space of “dis-integration,” widening the possibility for counter-assimilationist expression by migrants who are undocumented.

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解体：Miko Revereza 的视频信件和反同化美学

摘要 本文关注菲律宾裔美国电影制片人 Miko Revereza，他对自己的无证身份“出柜”，以记录无证移民表达反同化的可能性。在他获奖的自传电影《崩解 93-96》中，雷韦雷萨使用了他的家人在 1990 年代录制并从加利福尼亚发送给菲律宾亲戚的故障 VHS“视频信件”中的片段。与融入国家的理想梦想家模式相反，Revereza 创造了一种不完美的美学和“解体”的空间，扩大了无证移民反同化表达的可能性。