[Urban-Media] "Q2P" Film on Friday

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sounds fascinating shekar: will be there. Tulasi
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From: "Subho Basu" <subasu at maxwell.syr.edu>
> Sekhar
> 
> Thanks a lot for sending this! Very interesting.
> 
> Subho 
> 
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> 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
> 
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> 
> 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
> 
> 
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> 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). 
> 
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