ABOUT Q2P

Q2P
Documentary, Digital Video, 53 min., English/Hindi

CREDITS
Producer: PUKAR Director: PAROMITA VOHRA Camera: AJAY NORONHA Editing: JABEEN MERCHANT Sound: ANITA KUSHWAHA, SAMINA MISHRA Animation: SHILPA RANADE Music: TARUN SHAHANI, NIRAV GANDHI Narrator TUHINAA VOHRA

REVIEWS
http://www.boloji.com/wfs5/wfs739.htm
http://www.karmayog.org/bmc/bmc_1070.htm
http://www.mid-day.com/smd/play/2006/August/142463.htm

SYNOPSIS
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.

AWARDS:
Best documentary, IFFLA, Los Angeles, 2007; Best Documentary, Bollywood and Beyond, Stuttgart, 2007
MUSEUM/EXHIBITION SCREENINGS: TATE MODERN GLOBAL CITIES EXHIBIT, 2007; LILLE 3000, 2006; BONN BIENNALE, 2006
FESTIVALS: Royal Anthopology Institute Film Festival, Manchester, Film Festival de Popoli, Ecovisione Film Festival, Florence, Planet in Focus, Toronto, IFFLA, Bollywood and Beyond, Stuttgart, 3 Screens Film Festival, ISF New Delhi,


FOR ENQUIRIES CONTACT- Paromita Vohra: parodevi@gmail.com

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