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Films
found one film
Region
“South Asia”
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Keywords
“Gender Role and Identity”
and
“Socioeconomic conditions”
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Directors
“Vohra, Paromita”
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Series
“0”
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Colour / Black and white
“Colour”
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films with a digital version
1
films available on demand
1
Region
South Asia
1
x
Country
India
1
Keywords
Gender Role and Identity
1
x
Socioeconomic conditions
1
x
Urban
1
Directors
Vohra, Paromita
1
x
Series
not set
1
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Country of production
India
1
Year of production
2006
1
Colour / Black and white
Film
Q2P
2006
55
‘
Directed by
Paromita Vohra
.
Q2P is a film about toilets and the city. It sifts through the dream of Mumbai as a future Shanghai and searches for public toilets, watching who has to queue to pee. As the film observes who has access to toilets and who doesn’t, we begin to also see the imagination of gender that underlies the city’s shape, the constantly shifting boundaries between public and private space; we learn of small acts of survival that people in the city’s bottom half cobble together and quixotic ideas of social change that thrive with mixed results; 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.
South Asia
Gender Role and Identity
Urban
Socioeconomic conditions