Toilet Adventures

For any who will be in Paris on Sunday 12 April:

Bill Callahan’s latest film, toilet adventures, which examines Chinese experiences at the personal level, will be screened at the Ethnografilm Festival at 6.30 PM. (http://www.ethnofilmfest.org/about/ )

hope to see you there,

William A. Callahan (London School of Economics)

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toilet adventures
BILL CALLAHAN / UK CHINA
Ethnografilm 2015

It’s bad manners to discuss toilet activities. But the topic comes up again and again when people recount their first trip to China. Confronting a squat toilet for the first time is a real shock. This fundamental encounter with the unknown can tell us about big issues: relation of purity and danger, public and private space, and the proper role of the state in China’s rapidly changing society. Such abstract calculations come to life on the toilet in five stages, starting with ‘shock.’

Venue: Ciné 13 Théâtre 
1 Avenue Junot, 75018 Paris, France
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Cine+13/@48.887647,2.337284,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x946c00160496f13f?sa=X&ei=z2wdVfLzBYfwaJnwgbgH&ved=0CJcBEPwSMAs

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