Dear All,
Interesting event for those near East London tomorrow
David
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David Gilbert
Professor of Urban and Historical Geography
Director of MA in Cultural Geography (Research)
Department of Geography
Royal Holloway,
University of London,
Surrey TW20 0EX.
Tel (01784) 443653
Fax (01784) 472836
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www.gg.rhul.ac.uk/gilbert/index.html
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peer2peer presentations: Friday 8 December 8:30pm - 11:00pm
by Bombay director Paromita Vohra : 3 films about contemporary Mumbai
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Programme:
8.30pm
TALE 1: THE FORGOTTEN CITY (1 min.17 sec)
A poem called Mumbai, about a city built by workers. A skyline where
mill chimneys are replaced by glinting, cylindrical high-rises, that
mimic their shape, but do not hold their memory. A singer who recites
the names of train stations, a map in song. In the eye of change,a
forgotten city.
The eye of change, a forgotten city.
TALE 2: DEFEAT OF A MINOR GODDESS (12 min)
A film about food and faith: Anapurna, the goddess of food and her
sister, Laxmi, the goddess of wealth. The rivalry between the goddesses
divides the city with classical intrigue, insecurity and jealousy. The
city spirals into an escalating war over food and property, livelihood
and living. Vegetarians donıt want to live with non-vegetarians,
Saraswat Brahmins donıt want Jain neighbours and fishmongers donıt want
people of other communities to sell fish. Interweaving the fictional
war between the goddesses with a documentary exploration of Bombayıs
food politics, the film interrogates the divisive politics that
characterises contemporary Bombay under its cosmopolitan costume.
Refreshment Break.
9:00pm.
Main feature: Q2P (53 min.)
Q2P is a film about toilets and the city. It peers through the dream of
Mumbai 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 doesnıt, we begin to
also see the imagination of gender that underlies the cityıs shape, the
constantly shifting boundaries between public and private space; we
learn of small acts of survival that people in the cityıs 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.
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61 Regent Studios
6th Floor
8 Andrews Road
London E8 4QN
www.xyzlondon.com
tel 0207 254 4459
by Broadway Market/ above the canal/over the city
map:
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Admission by donation (suggested donation £1 or £2)
All proceeds to the Devi Pictures, Paromita Vohra.
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