Night for Day uses the fake relationship between a mother and a son to think about what would happen if a communist revolutionary gave birth to a techno utopian, if gender as performitivity was thought through the lens of women making the political decision to live clandestinely in Portugal for a larger part of the 20th century and if the “Last Woman” were the fem bot from The Tales of Hoffman.
Comprised of interviews conducted with Isabel do Carmo, who co-ran the Revolutionary Brigades in Portugal that helped to overthrow the longest fascist dictatorship in Europe and two young men Alexander Bridi and Djelal Osman—astrophysicists running a startup in Lisbon that attempts to programme computers to recognise moving images—the film collages a subjectivity from fragments of camera’s struggling to see at night, out in the cold presences watching families inside their homes and images that attempt to describe a loved one in frequencies of three.