Paromita Vohra's 'Q2P'
Trailer to Vohra's film about toilets and the
city. 'Q2P' peers through the dream of Mumabi as a future
Shanghai and searches for public toilets in Bombay with a small
detour in Delhi, 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.
Find out more about the film from Paromita Vohra's
website.
Running time: 3 min 07 s