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Free Spirits features Ask the Sexpert | A Film Directed by Vaishali Sinha

Aug 16 2024 – 2:30pm-4:00pm

About the event

Free Spirits – Screening of Contemporary Seminal Indian Films features FILM 3
Ask the Sexpert | Directed by Vaishali Sinha

This feature-length documentary explores the life of Dr. Mahinder Watsa, a 93-year-old sex advice columnist in Mumbai. Despite the taboo surrounding sex in India, his column’s blend of humor and non-moralistic advice has inspired many to seek his guidance.

ABOUT THE FILM
Ask the Sexpert is a feature length documentary about Dr. Mahinder Watsa, a highly popular 93-year-old sex advice columnist for a daily newspaper in Mumbai. Despite sex being a taboo topic in India, the column’s brand of non-moralistic advice and humor has emboldened many to write in with their questions. The columnist gains popularity even while a ban on comprehensive sex education in schools is adopted by approximately a third of India’s states.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Vaishali Sinha is an award-winning director and producer of feature documentaries like Made in India and Ask the Sexpert. Her films are distributed on major streaming platforms and international networks. A grantee of prestigious foundations like MacArthur and Tribeca Gucci Fund, she is also an alumni of Rockefeller’s Bellagio Residency and Firelight Media’s DocLab. Co-founder of Bitchitra Collective, Vaishali’s films focus on deeply researched, character-driven stories aimed at sparking dialogue.

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IFBE

The Ice Factory at Ballard Estate (IFBE) is an experimental laboratory for transdisciplinary practices across modern and contemporary architecture, art, and pedagogy. The conserved and refashioned structure is itself a historical object; its complexity, diversity, and paradoxical forms of architecture are instruments for the invention of knowledge. Malik Architecture has created an architecture that does not settle, one with spaces to breathe through a crystallization and mutation of traditional, modern, and contemporary experiments. A century-old embodiment... of “the dreams that stuff is made of.” IFBE’s community of architects, artists, scholars, and students exists in the expanding complexity and multiplicity of the present without sacrificing a fidelity to pasts and archiving, to build and chronicle in the here and now, what Reinhard Koselleck felicitously called “futures past.”