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Q2P
Title
Q2P / PUKAR presents a film by Paromita Vohra ; directed by Paromita Vohra.
Published
London, UK : Royal Anthropological Institute, 2006.
Physical Description
1 streaming video (54 min.).
Local Notes
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Notes
Originally produced as a documentary film in 2006.
"Part of the Gender and Space Project at PUKAR."
"For educational use only"--Original container.
This edition in English and Hindi with English subtitles.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
"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"--Original container.
Variant and related titles
Q 2 P
Queue to pee
ASP-AVON OCLC KB.
Other formats
DVD version: Q2P. London, UK : Royal Anthropological Institute, 2006
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English; Hindi
Added to Catalog
November 15, 2019
Series
Ethnographic video online ; volume 2
Subjects
Genre/Form
Nonfiction films.
Nonfiction films.
Online media.
Also listed under
PUKAR (Mumbai, India)
Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.
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