From shekhar at MIT.EDU Mon Apr 23 00:02:32 2007 From: shekhar at MIT.EDU (Shekhar Krishnan) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:02:32 -0400 Subject: [Urban-Media] "Q2P" Film on Friday Message-ID: <1177300952.5269.98.camel@nowhereman> Dear All: My friend Paromita Vohra, documentary film-maker from Mumbai, will be screening her new film "Q2P" on urban women and public toilets in India, this coming Friday at DUSP. For more information, see below and http://urban.media.mit.edu/wiki/Q2P_Screening Best, Shekhar -- The Students Council and Students of Color Committee of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) and the South Asia Forum at MIT invite you to a screening of the documentary film "Q2P" directed by Paromita Vohra on FRIDAY 27 APRIL at 6.00 P.M. in the Audio-Visual Theatre in Room 7-431 at DUSP, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139. The director will introduce the film, and the hour-long screening will be followed by dinner and open discussion. If you plan to attend for dinner, please RSVP to Anne Schwieger aschwieg at mit.edu and Ronilda Rosario Co at ronilda at mit.edu. For more information about the film and the director, please visit http://urban.media.mit.edu/wiki/Q2P_Screening -- About the Film: "Q2P" (Documentary, 2005, 53 minutes, DV, English, Hindi) LOOK AT THE TOILET ... ... SEE THE CITY Who is dreaming up the global city? Q2P peers through the dream of a futuristic Mumbai and finds... public toilets... not enough of them. As this film observes who has to queue to pee, we begin to understand the imagination of gender that underlies the city?s shape and the constantly shifting boundaries between public and private space. We meet whimsical people with novel ideas of social change, which thrive with mixed results. We learn of small acts of survival that people in the city?s bottom half cobble together. In the Museum of Toilets, at a night concert, in a New Delhi ?international toilet?, in a Bombay slum, we hear the silence that surrounds toilets and sense how similar it is to the silence that surrounds inequality. The toilet becomes a riddle with many answers and some of those answers are questions ? about gender, about class, about caste and most of all about space, urban development and the twisted myth of the global metropolis. About the Director: PAROMITA VOHRA is a filmmaker and writer. She has written, produced and directed Morality TV and the Loving Jehad: Ek Manohar Kahani (2007) a documentary on moral policing and tabloid culture set in Meerut, Q2P(2006), a film about toilets, and the language of urban development with a focus on Bombay, Where?s Sandra(2005), a film about sexual and community stereotyping of Christian women, often referred to as ?Sandra from Bandra? in Bombay, Work In Progress (2004) about the World Social Forum which took place in Bombay in 2004), Cosmopolis: Two Tales of A City (2004), a film that probes the myth of Bombay?s cosmopolitanism through the politics of land and food, which won an award at the Indo-British Digital Film Festival, Unlimited Girls (2001), an exploration of what feminism means to different people in urban India which has won several awards, A Woman?s Place (1998), a film about women's legal strategies in India, South Africa and the USA (for PBS), Annapurna: Goddess of Food (1995) about an organization of women food workers in Bombay's textile mill area which has been broadcast in 10 countries and A Short Film About Time (1999) a short fiction about a woman with a broken heart, her therapist and his watch. Her work as a writer includes the feature films Khamosh Pani (Silent Waters), about a woman whose life is transformed by growing fundamentalism in a Pakistani village(dir: Sabiha Sumar), for which she won the Best Screenplay award at the Kara Film Festival, 2003 and Khamoshi:The Musical (Additional Scriptwriting) (dir: Sanjay Leela Bhansali); the documentaries Skin Deep, A Few Things I Know About Her and If You Pause: In a Museum of Craft as well as a series of short fiction films on communal conflict for the People?s Decade of Human Rights Education (PDHRE). -- Shekhar Krishnan 400, West 119th Street, Apt.10D New York, NY 10027 U.S.A. http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar http://www.heptanesia.net http://www.crit.org.in/members/shekhar From Douglas.E.Haynes at Dartmouth.EDU Mon Apr 23 08:33:20 2007 From: Douglas.E.Haynes at Dartmouth.EDU (Douglas E. Haynes) Date: 23 Apr 2007 08:33:20 -0400 Subject: [Urban-Media] "Q2P" Film on Friday Message-ID: <100458677@newprancer.Dartmouth.EDU> An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: not available Url: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/urban-media/attachments/20070423/079b2ca1/attachment.bat From subasu at maxwell.syr.edu Mon Apr 23 09:50:30 2007 From: subasu at maxwell.syr.edu (Subho Basu) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:50:30 -0400 Subject: [Urban-Media] "Q2P" Film on Friday In-Reply-To: <1177300952.5269.98.camel@nowhereman> Message-ID: <32A8B2CB12BFC84D8D11D872C787AA9A18A94F7A@EXCHANGE.forest.maxwell.syr.edu> Sekhar Thanks a lot for sending this! Very interesting. Subho -----Original Message----- From: urban-media-bounces at MIT.EDU [mailto:urban-media-bounces at MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of Shekhar Krishnan Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 12:03 AM To: MIT Urban Media Mailing List; Writing Cities; HASTS Students Subject: [Urban-Media] "Q2P" Film on Friday Dear All: My friend Paromita Vohra, documentary film-maker from Mumbai, will be screening her new film "Q2P" on urban women and public toilets in India, this coming Friday at DUSP. For more information, see below and http://urban.media.mit.edu/wiki/Q2P_Screening Best, Shekhar -- The Students Council and Students of Color Committee of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) and the South Asia Forum at MIT invite you to a screening of the documentary film "Q2P" directed by Paromita Vohra on FRIDAY 27 APRIL at 6.00 P.M. in the Audio-Visual Theatre in Room 7-431 at DUSP, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139. The director will introduce the film, and the hour-long screening will be followed by dinner and open discussion. If you plan to attend for dinner, please RSVP to Anne Schwieger aschwieg at mit.edu and Ronilda Rosario Co at ronilda at mit.edu. For more information about the film and the director, please visit http://urban.media.mit.edu/wiki/Q2P_Screening -- About the Film: "Q2P" (Documentary, 2005, 53 minutes, DV, English, Hindi) LOOK AT THE TOILET ... ... SEE THE CITY Who is dreaming up the global city? Q2P peers through the dream of a futuristic Mumbai and finds... public toilets... not enough of them. As this film observes who has to queue to pee, we begin to understand the imagination of gender that underlies the city's shape and the constantly shifting boundaries between public and private space. We meet whimsical people with novel ideas of social change, which thrive with mixed results. We learn of small acts of survival that people in the city's bottom half cobble together. In the Museum of Toilets, at a night concert, in a New Delhi "international toilet", in a Bombay slum, we hear the silence that surrounds toilets and sense how similar it is to the silence that surrounds inequality. The toilet becomes a riddle with many answers and some of those answers are questions - about gender, about class, about caste and most of all about space, urban development and the twisted myth of the global metropolis. About the Director: PAROMITA VOHRA is a filmmaker and writer. She has written, produced and directed Morality TV and the Loving Jehad: Ek Manohar Kahani (2007) a documentary on moral policing and tabloid culture set in Meerut, Q2P(2006), a film about toilets, and the language of urban development with a focus on Bombay, Where's Sandra(2005), a film about sexual and community stereotyping of Christian women, often referred to as 'Sandra from Bandra' in Bombay, Work In Progress (2004) about the World Social Forum which took place in Bombay in 2004), Cosmopolis: Two Tales of A City (2004), a film that probes the myth of Bombay's cosmopolitanism through the politics of land and food, which won an award at the Indo-British Digital Film Festival, Unlimited Girls (2001), an exploration of what feminism means to different people in urban India which has won several awards, A Woman's Place (1998), a film about women's legal strategies in India, South Africa and the USA (for PBS), Annapurna: Goddess of Food (1995) about an organization of women food workers in Bombay's textile mill area which has been broadcast in 10 countries and A Short Film About Time (1999) a short fiction about a woman with a broken heart, her therapist and his watch. Her work as a writer includes the feature films Khamosh Pani (Silent Waters), about a woman whose life is transformed by growing fundamentalism in a Pakistani village(dir: Sabiha Sumar), for which she won the Best Screenplay award at the Kara Film Festival, 2003 and Khamoshi:The Musical (Additional Scriptwriting) (dir: Sanjay Leela Bhansali); the documentaries Skin Deep, A Few Things I Know About Her and If You Pause: In a Museum of Craft as well as a series of short fiction films on communal conflict for the People's Decade of Human Rights Education (PDHRE). -- Shekhar Krishnan 400, West 119th Street, Apt.10D New York, NY 10027 U.S.A. http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar http://www.heptanesia.net http://www.crit.org.in/members/shekhar --- MIT Urban Media Mailing List http://urban.media.mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urban-media From tsrinivas at comcast.net Mon Apr 23 13:50:19 2007 From: tsrinivas at comcast.net (tsrinivas@comcast.net) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 17:50:19 +0000 Subject: [Urban-Media] "Q2P" Film on Friday Message-ID: <042320071750.10748.462CF1DB0002BB4A000029FC22007589429C0E900702079D9C9B@comcast.net> sounds fascinating shekar: will be there. Tulasi -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Subho Basu" > Sekhar > > Thanks a lot for sending this! Very interesting. > > Subho > > -----Original Message----- > From: urban-media-bounces at MIT.EDU [mailto:urban-media-bounces at MIT.EDU] > On Behalf Of Shekhar Krishnan > Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 12:03 AM > To: MIT Urban Media Mailing List; Writing Cities; HASTS Students > Subject: [Urban-Media] "Q2P" Film on Friday > > Dear All: > > My friend Paromita Vohra, documentary film-maker from Mumbai, will be > screening her new film "Q2P" on urban women and public toilets in India, > this coming Friday at DUSP. For more information, see below and > http://urban.media.mit.edu/wiki/Q2P_Screening > > Best, > > > Shekhar > > -- > > The Students Council and Students of Color Committee of the Department > of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) and the South Asia Forum at MIT > invite you to a screening of the documentary film "Q2P" directed by > Paromita Vohra on FRIDAY 27 APRIL at 6.00 P.M. in the Audio-Visual > Theatre in Room 7-431 at DUSP, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA > 02139. > > The director will introduce the film, and the hour-long screening will > be followed by dinner and open discussion. If you plan to attend for > dinner, please RSVP to Anne Schwieger aschwieg at mit.edu and Ronilda > Rosario Co at ronilda at mit.edu. For more information about the film and > the director, please visit http://urban.media.mit.edu/wiki/Q2P_Screening > > > -- > > About the Film: > > "Q2P" > (Documentary, 2005, 53 minutes, DV, English, Hindi) > > LOOK AT THE > TOILET ... > > ... SEE THE CITY > > > Who is dreaming up the global city? Q2P peers through the dream of a > futuristic Mumbai and finds... public toilets... not enough of them. > > As this film observes who has to queue to pee, we begin to understand > the imagination of gender that underlies the city's shape and the > constantly shifting boundaries between public and private space. We meet > whimsical people with novel ideas of social change, which thrive with > mixed results. We learn of small acts of survival that people in the > city's bottom half cobble together. In the Museum of Toilets, at a night > concert, in a New Delhi "international toilet", in a Bombay slum, we > hear the silence that surrounds toilets and sense how similar it is to > the silence that surrounds inequality. The toilet becomes a riddle with > many answers and some of those answers are questions - about gender, > about class, about caste and most of all about space, urban development > and the twisted myth of the global metropolis. > > > About the Director: > > PAROMITA VOHRA is a filmmaker and writer. > > She has written, produced and directed Morality TV and the Loving Jehad: > Ek Manohar Kahani (2007) a documentary on moral policing and tabloid > culture set in Meerut, Q2P(2006), a film about toilets, and the language > of urban development with a focus on Bombay, Where's Sandra(2005), a > film about sexual and community stereotyping of Christian women, often > referred to as 'Sandra from Bandra' in Bombay, Work In Progress (2004) > about the World Social Forum which took place in Bombay in 2004), > Cosmopolis: Two Tales of A City (2004), a film that probes the myth of > Bombay's cosmopolitanism through the politics of land and food, which > won an award at the Indo-British Digital Film Festival, Unlimited Girls > (2001), an exploration of what feminism means to different people in > urban India which has won several awards, A Woman's Place (1998), a film > about women's legal strategies in India, South Africa and the USA (for > PBS), Annapurna: Goddess of Food (1995) about an organization of women > food workers in Bombay's textile mill area which has been broadcast in > 10 countries and A Short Film About Time (1999) a short fiction about a > woman with a broken heart, her therapist and his watch. > > Her work as a writer includes the feature films Khamosh Pani (Silent > Waters), about a woman whose life is transformed by growing > fundamentalism in a Pakistani village(dir: Sabiha Sumar), for which she > won the Best Screenplay award at the Kara Film Festival, 2003 and > Khamoshi:The Musical (Additional Scriptwriting) (dir: Sanjay Leela > Bhansali); the documentaries Skin Deep, A Few Things I Know About Her > and If You Pause: In a Museum of Craft as well as a series of short > fiction films on communal conflict for the People's Decade of Human > Rights Education (PDHRE). > > -- > > Shekhar Krishnan > 400, West 119th Street, Apt.10D > New York, NY 10027 > U.S.A. > > http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar > http://www.heptanesia.net > http://www.crit.org.in/members/shekhar > > --- > > MIT Urban Media Mailing List > > http://urban.media.mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urban-media > > --- > > MIT Urban Media Mailing List > > http://urban.media.mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urban-media From shekhar at MIT.EDU Fri Apr 27 00:49:12 2007 From: shekhar at MIT.EDU (Shekhar Krishnan) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:49:12 -0400 Subject: [Urban-Media] Q2P 6.00 p.m. TODAY Message-ID: <1177649352.6190.26.camel@nowhereman> Dear All: The Students Council and Students of Color Committee of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) and the South Asia Forum at MIT invite you to a screening of the documentary film "Q2P" directed by Paromita Vohra TODAY -- FRIDAY 27 APRIL -- at 6.00 P.M. in the Audio-Visual Theatre in Room 7-431 at DUSP, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139. The director will introduce the film, and the hour-long screening will be followed by dinner and open discussion. If you plan to attend for dinner, please RSVP to Anne Schwieger aschwieg at mit.edu and Ronilda Rosario Co at ronilda at mit.edu. For more information about the film and director, see below and http://urban.media.mit.edu/wiki/Q2P_Screening For directions to Room 7-431 see http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=7&mapsearch=go -- About the Film: "Q2P" (Documentary, 2005, 53 minutes, DV, English, Hindi) LOOK AT THE TOILET ... ... SEE THE CITY Who is dreaming up the global city? Q2P peers through the dream of a futuristic Mumbai and finds... public toilets... not enough of them. As this film observes who has to queue to pee, we begin to understand the imagination of gender that underlies the city?s shape and the constantly shifting boundaries between public and private space. We meet whimsical people with novel ideas of social change, which thrive with mixed results. We learn of small acts of survival that people in the city?s bottom half cobble together. In the Museum of Toilets, at a night concert, in a New Delhi ?international toilet?, in a Bombay slum, we hear the silence that surrounds toilets and sense how similar it is to the silence that surrounds inequality. The toilet becomes a riddle with many answers and some of those answers are questions ? about gender, about class, about caste and most of all about space, urban development and the twisted myth of the global metropolis. About the Director: PAROMITA VOHRA is a filmmaker and writer based in Mumbai. She has written, produced and directed Morality TV and the Loving Jehad: Ek Manohar Kahani (2007) a documentary on moral policing and tabloid culture set in Meerut, Q2P(2006), a film about toilets, and the language of urban development with a focus on Bombay, Where?s Sandra(2005), a film about sexual and community stereotyping of Christian women, often referred to as ?Sandra from Bandra? in Bombay, Work In Progress (2004) about the World Social Forum which took place in Bombay in 2004), Cosmopolis: Two Tales of A City (2004), a film that probes the myth of Bombay?s cosmopolitanism through the politics of land and food, which won an award at the Indo-British Digital Film Festival, Unlimited Girls (2001), an exploration of what feminism means to different people in urban India which has won several awards, A Woman?s Place (1998), a film about women's legal strategies in India, South Africa and the USA (for PBS), Annapurna: Goddess of Food (1995) about an organization of women food workers in Bombay's textile mill area which has been broadcast in 10 countries and A Short Film About Time (1999) a short fiction about a woman with a broken heart, her therapist and his watch. Her work as a writer includes the feature films Khamosh Pani (Silent Waters), about a woman whose life is transformed by growing fundamentalism in a Pakistani village(dir: Sabiha Sumar), for which she won the Best Screenplay award at the Kara Film Festival, 2003 and Khamoshi:The Musical (Additional Scriptwriting) (dir: Sanjay Leela). Her work as a writer includes the feature films Khamosh Pani (Silent Waters), about a woman whose life is transformed by growing fundamentalism in a Pakistani village(dir: Sabiha Sumar), for which she won the Best Screenplay award at the Kara Film Festival, 2003 and Khamoshi:The Musical (Additional Scriptwriting) (dir: Sanjay Leela Bhansali); the documentaries Skin Deep, A Few Things I Know About Her and If You Pause: In a Museum of Craft as well as a series of short fiction films on communal conflict for the People?s Decade of Human Rights Education (PDHRE). -- Shekhar Krishnan MIT E51-185 77, Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 U.S.A. http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar http://www.heptanesia.net http://www.crit.org.in/members/shekhar