“After 9/11, the thought of a suicide bomber in New York City has become an unfortunate and reoccurring nightmare. Both painstakingly precise and powerfully abstract, Julia Loktev’s portrait of a terrorist examines the psychology of the person (and her act) divorced from its political rationalization. In the film’s first half, a young woman is locked in a motel room, where she waits, sleeps, eats, and occasionally receives instruction from a trio of black-masked men. Rather than answers, we get only questions. Who are these men? What is their political aim? How is the woman part of this plot? In the second half, these questions grow more urgent as we witness in a documentary style her wandering through the streets of New York. Pedestrians pass her, as oblivious to her intentions as we are. At every corner she turns, every street she walks down, our sense of dread and danger grow. Playing off our sense of helplessness, Day Night Day Night is a powerful political drama about the terror inherent in terrorism. The film received major awards from the Cannes, Independent Spirit, Chicago and Woodstock film festivals.” -PSIFF 2007