Daylight
“Daylight” examines the site of the Tombs in Manhattan’s Chinatown, where four iterations of a jail have been demolished and rebuilt since 1838. Layers of carceral history are inscribed, erased and overwritten with each generation of reform.
“Daylight” observes the justice architects involved in the process of designing four new borough based jails in the city. The film visualises the process of reformative justice design, looking at the language, renderings and imagery used to perpetuate the system that reform claims to dismantle.
Screens live on SATURDAY, Dec. 6
Q&A with filmmakers to follow
Filmmakers
Anna Heisterkamp
Lidia Goldberg
Anna Heisterkamp is an artist and filmmaker from Dublin, Ireland. An editor and cinematographer by trade, they have directed over 20 music videos and multiple moving image pieces which have been shown in galleries in Dublin, Limerick and Belfast. They received a nomination for Best Emerging Director at the EDA Awards in Dublin and Best New Director at the Shark Awards in London. Their documentary work focuses on how to archive the present, investigating structural issues through a spatial lens and questioning how systems of power function.
Email: akheisterkamp@aol.com
Lidia Goldberg is a filmmaker and writer from Boston, Massachusetts. Her background is in magazine writing and publishing, with years of experience tailored to the marine industry. Goldberg is moved to write about and document social justice issues relating to climate change while also questioning if film can be impactful enough to motivate audiences into action. She is currently based in New York City and looking for meaningful documentary work.
Email: lmg2255@columbia.edu
