‘Meniscus’ follows the journey of a young boy by the name of Thulani from his home in Kliptown to an overcrowded prison in the centre of Johannesburg where his father is incarcerated. Tracing Thulani’s movements in contemporary Johannesburg, the short film by Marc Thomas and Chloe Speller offers a poignant reflection on the physical and social production of space and arrives at the troubling conclusion that the confinement of the prison cell is uncannily reflected in the restrictions of urban life. Inevitably, a film concerned with the lack of adequate and hospitable space in the urban present has to excavate the temporal layers of the not too distant past. And thus, in one of its pivotal scenes, the film returns to the infamous apartheid prison in the centre of Johannesburg. Now known as Constitution Hill, the former prison doubles as a place of commemoration for past human rights violations and as a celebration of those institutions (the Constitutional Court) that safeguard a still young democracy. ‘The architecture of detention’ (press kit) is thus never far removed from the desire for spatial justice and the advocacy for a different, liberating map of the city.

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 “弯月面”：感性和感性地理的愿景

《弯月》讲述了一个名叫图拉尼的小男孩从他在克利普敦的家到约翰内斯堡市中心一个人满为患的监狱的旅程，他的父亲被监禁在那里。Marc Thomas 和 Chloe Speller 的短片追溯了 Thulani 在当代约翰内斯堡的运动，对空间的物质和社会生产进行了深刻的反思，并得出了令人不安的结论，即监狱牢房的禁闭在城市生活的限制中不可思议地反映出来. 一部关注当下城市缺乏足够宜人空间的电影不可避免地不得不挖掘不太遥远的过去的时间层次。因此，在其中一个关键场景中，这部电影回到了约翰内斯堡市中心臭名昭著的种族隔离监狱。现在被称为宪法山，这座前监狱既是对过去侵犯人权行为的纪念场所，也是对那些维护仍然年轻的民主的机构（宪法法院）的庆祝场所。因此，“拘留建筑”（新闻资料袋）与对空间正义的渴望和对不同的、解放的城市地图的倡导从未远离。