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Pad.ma +Newsletter I
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Pad.ma’s monthly newsletter contains information +about new contributions to the archive (videos and writing), featured videos +lists, announcements, Pad.ma projects and events, etc. This month, we bring you +eight new video collections (55 new videos), a public call for Pad.ma +fellowships, some highlights from the archive, and a new and updated ‘How to +use Pad.ma’ guide.


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For Pad.ma, this is the beginning of a new phase of +content development. It is also in +anticipation of a new software framework and interface (expected in summer +2010), which will make working with Pad.ma easier and more rewarding. +Meanwhile, we welcome your contributions (video, text or thoughts) to this +growing public collection of material.


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Pad.ma is an +interpretative web-based video archive, which works primarily with footage and +not finished films. Pad.ma creates access to material which is easily +lost in editing processes, in the filmmaking economy, and in changes of scale brought about by digital technology. Unlike Youtube, the +focus here is on annotation, cross-linking, downloading and the reuse of video +material for pedagogy, research and reference. For more, see http://pad.ma/about.

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>>> +What’s new <<<


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> Theatre Jam
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + +In +October 2009, Maraa, a media collective from Bangalore, did a 31-day marathon +of performances in public spaces, in an effort to reclaim them for artistic +expression. Theatre workshops, photography exhibitions and poetry readings took +place in parks, markets and cafés. An on-going series that begins to document +Maraa’s interventions in the city. +
+http://pad.ma/find?l=L1i


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> +Politics of Change
+Annemie Maes, an artist and researcher from Brussels, +started the Politics of Change project when she visited Barefoot College, +Tilonia, Rajasthan, in 2008. Maes was struck by the similarity between the +bottom-up approach of the solar engineering programme for rural Rajasthani +women and her own artistic practice at Okno, an organisation that works on +collective technological research projects. Maes has uploaded to Pad.ma her +film Mahila, video questionnaires from PoC workshops, and interviews with +Rajasthani and African solar engineers, and friends and colleagues from +Brussels.
+http://pad.ma/find?l=L1e


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> +People’s Panchayats against Homophobia
+Action Plus, a network of 14 organisations working on +HIV/AIDS in India, organised People’s Panchayats on stigma and homophobia in +Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune and Delhi in early 2009. Forefronted were the voices of +survivors and resistors from sexual minority communities. Point of View, +Mumbai, documented these panchayats: depositions, testimonies, audience +responses, and the jury’s ‘verdict’ at the end. A large and growing collection +of voices.
+http://pad.ma/find?l=L1j


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> +Lectures from CSCS, Bangalore
+Lectures from the ‘Culture and Democracy’ course at the +Centre for the Study of Society and Culture (CSCS), Bangalore. These lectures +were recorded in 2007 and invited speakers included Ashish Rajadhyaksha, M. +Madhava Prasad, S. V. Srinivas, Sitharamam Kakarala and Vivek Dhareshwar. +Welcome to the online, annotation-friendly classroom. Stay logged in for future +classes.


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Currently published:
+M. Madhava Prasad’s ‘Enthusiasm and Indian Politics: Problems in the Analysis +of Aural Culture’
+http://pad.ma/Vedx0jjp/info
+Ashish Rajadhyaksha’s ‘Cinematic Governance’
+http://pad.ma/Ve2iazfj/info


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> +Motornama Roshanara
+Rides through the industrial district around Roshanara Road, +Delhi. Tours on cycle rickshaws with rickshaw wallahs as narrators and guides. +Narratives of automation, pollution, labour and the closure of famed repair +industries. All this across a landscape characterised by lost middle-class confidence, new +migrants, old machines, bodily risk and emerging eco-politics in the city of +Delhi. A project by Shaina Anand +and Ashok Sukumaran, as part of 48deg. C, Delhi, 2009.
+http://pad.ma/Vhmchrdp/info


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> +Al Jaar Qabla al Daar (The Neighbour before the house)
+A series of video probes into the landscape of East +Jerusalem. Shot with a security camera, these videos attempt to overflow the instrumental +aspects of surveillance imaging. +Looking from one’s home, obsessively or longingly, becomes a way of +narrating over the architecture of a city in conflict. A continuing project by +CAMP. This is footage from one location in Jerusalem. More from other neighbourhoods coming soon.
+http://pad.ma/Vs7c6mni


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> +Wharfage
+Wharfage is another on-going CAMP project, which, in 2009, +looked closely at Sharjah port from where a large number of wooden boats or +dhows leave for Somalia. This movement of goods and sailors maps out a +landscape of new and used objects, labour, Asian and African migration and +oversized dhows now being built in Gujarat. Hakimuddin +Liliyawala spent time on Sharjah creek, documenting the loading and +unloading of the dhows, and wrote over these images. Nida Ghouse and +Radhamohini Prasad did a follow-up visit to Jam Salaya, to meet sailor friends +they had made in Sharjah.
+http://pad.ma/find?l=L1d


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> Pad.ma Meta
+On February 16, 2009, Pad.ma was launched as a public +website. We had a day-long event in which people who have been engaging with +Pad.ma, made presentations about their use of the archive. Presenters included +Sanjay Kak, Agaaz, Ghar Bachao Ghar Banao Andolan, Ayisha Abraham, Sadanand +Menon, and Priya Sen, among others. This collection has videos of these +presentations and documentation of other Pad.ma events. http://pad.ma/find?l=L1m
+For a report on the Pad.ma 2009 event, see: http://camputer.org/event.php?this=padma09&tab=optBtn2

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>>> +Pad.ma Highlight <<<


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Pad.ma’s commitment to +making video footage publicly available has motivated us to recirculate +material under fair use. Contributors have uploaded clips from Hindi films to +Pad.ma and more importantly, annotated them critically. This has created a +innovative space for film studies on the web, where ideas and timelines can +come together. Some examples:


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> +Queering Bollywood
+A selection of some coded queer moments in seemingly mainstream and +heteronormative Indian films. A collection of queer readings of such moments. +And a database of video clips, film titles and articles on queer +representations in cinema. This video selection, put together by Namita +Malhotra, has clips from films like Sholay, +Sadak, Utsav, Silsila and Mera Naam Joker. User +contributions to this database are invited. Write to pad.ma@pad.ma
http://pad.ma/find?l=L10

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> +Cinematic Cities and Citizenship
+Cinema constructs national consciousness: citizens and +denizens, centres and margins. Cinema archives the urban: planners and +gangsters, ambivalent modernities and urban villages. And cinema opens a virtual +window to the world. All for eight rupees – at least it did till some time ago. +A virtual tour of the city and the citizen in cinema with Lawrence Liang.
+http://pad.ma/find?l=L1h


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> The sex worker in Bollywood

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These clips +from films like Amar Prem, Umrao Jaan and Mandi as well as the more recent Julie, Chameli and Sadak, explore the popular concern with +and presence of the sex worker in many Hindi film genres (commercial, art +house, historical and B-grade). The depictions traverse a range of +characters, including gharwalis and pimps to name a few.
+http://pad.ma/find?l=L1q

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>>> +Announcements <<<


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> +Fellowships

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Pad.ma invites applications +for fellowships from individuals and organisations interested in
+> +contributing footage from a film or research project
+ > +annotating and researching material already in Pad.ma
+ > +experimenting with new ways of interpreting and using videos in the archive
+Fellows will be offered honorariums and interested persons can write to pad.ma@pad.ma


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> +Pad.ma @ Home Works , Beirut

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Pad.ma will conduct a two week workshop and day-long colloquium at Home Works V in Beirut, +Lebanon, from April 12-25, 2010. Titled ‘Don’t Wait for the Archive: Archiving +practices and futures of the image’, this workshop/colloquium seeks to discuss +the archive as neither a fixed concept nor as unbounded potential, but as a +concrete set of negotiations, costs, transactions, tools and imaginations that constitute +it. A key question will be: Is there something, in the density of our contemporary +experiences in Bombay, Bangalore, Beirut or on the internet, that can lead to a +shared theory of the archive, which goes beyond its dominant canons? For more, see +http://www.ashkalalwan.org/


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> +Technical Tips for Pad.ma
+Feeling daunted by the Pad.ma interface? Can’t figure out +how to browse, search, upload or download videos, transcribe or annotate? Or +why you just can’t open Pad.ma in Internet Explorer? Fret not. The up-to-date +‘How to Use Pad.ma’ guide is here: http://wiki.pad.ma/wiki/HowTo


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This newsletter was compiled by Pad.ma’s Content +Coordinator, Subuhi Jiwani, with the support of Zinnia Ambaripadwala, Pad.ma's Technical +Coordinator. Send your feedback and comments to subuhi@pad.ma +or pad.ma@pad.ma

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The Pad.ma project was initiated in 2008 by Oil21 from +Berlin, the Alternative Law Forum from Bangalore, Majlis, Point of View and +Chitrakarkhana/CAMP, Mumbai.

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