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Copyright Sridhar Rangayan, 2009
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CREDITS
Title: Gender Unpack
Year: 2006
Language: English
Genre: Short
Duration: 30 mins
Directors: Anjali Monteiro & K.P.Jayashankar
SYNOPSIS
This film is a series of four short films explores and questions the construction of our gendered identities and their manifestations in everyday lives. They explore the little ways in which we resist and subvert these modes of power.
QUEER NOTES
One of the shorts in this pack - THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS by Sheetal Gokhale and B. Prasad is about a day in the life of a 24 yr old boy, caught by his sister while experimenting with her clothes and makeup one afternoon. The film explores and questions the gender identities that society enforces upon people and the protagonist�s subsequent shame at his confusion.
ACTOR/S IN QUEER ROLE
LINKS
Official Website: http://www.psbt.org/screening/library/12?page=2
queer portrayals in Indian films