Night for Day
Wednesday 23.03.22
The speculative fiction film Night for Day of British artist Emily Wardill explores what would happen if a communist revolutionary gave birth to a techno-utopian.
After the screening there will be a conversation between Wardill and Antonio Cataldo, artistic director at Fotogalleriet. The conversation will be held in English.
About the film
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 - Night for Day 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.
About the filmmaker
Emily Wardill (f. 1977) is a British artist and filmmaker who lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal and Malmö, Sweden. Wardill’s work has been exhibited in solo shows including Secession (2020) Kohta (2019) Bergen Kunsthall (2017), Gulbenkian Project Spaces (2017), INDEX, Stockholm (2014), The National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen (2012). Wardill currently works as a Professor at Malmö Art Academy, Sweden and as a visiting tutor at Maumaus, Lisbon.
The event is presented in collaboration with the master's program Screen Cultures at the University of Oslo.