<videovortex> Pad.ma Update: May 2012

[Namita]

Apologies for cross posting.

Our video archive Pad.ma (Public Access Digital Media Archive) is now  
available in its next iteration. To navigate the new website take the  
tour or watch this extremely easy video screencast done by Sanjay  
Bhangar.

Tour of Pandora (software framework for Pad.ma): https://pan.do/ra#tour
Video Screencast: http://camputer.org/tmp/screencast_webm/screenCast_ffmpeg_1.webm

Pad.ma is now based on https://pan.do/ra framework that makes it  
easier to browse and search video (based on source, keyword, people  
featured in video, project/collection, lists, maps, events), to do  
time-based annotations, collate personal or public lists, share and  
embed video on other websites. This year we will also be expanding  
footage in Pad.ma to include the performing arts, cinema history and  
documentary footage projects, especially our collaboration with Shared  
Footage Group.

Kolar Gold Fields footage
http://pad.ma/grid/title/project==Kolar%20Gold%20Fields%20and%20Mines

This collection of footage tracks 100 years of gold-mining in Kolar  
Gold Fields through videos, interviews and photographs. From memories  
of days when gold-bearing trams departed from this small town to the  
derelict mines of the present, KGF has seen vast changes since early  
20th century. The videos are annotated with excerpts from Janaki  
Nair's historical mapping of the labour movement, caste and community  
in Kolar. The collection is a contribution from Ayisha Abraham and  
Janaki Nair, the footage is shot by R.V Ramani and interviews have  
been transcribed and translated by Nitya Vasudevan.
You can see a video about the making of gold (http://pad.ma/ACR/player/00:05:30.933,00:05:26,00:13:59.560 
), an interview about long history of labour unions in KGF since the  
21 day strike in 1930 (http://pad.ma/ACM/player/E) or a Doordarshan  
panegyric program on KGF, made in 1981 (http://pad.ma/ACB/player/AC).

THE 377 TRANSCRIPTS: A Brief History of the Naz Foundation Judgement
by Siddharth Narain
http://essays.pad.ma/377-transcripts-brief-history
Judicial reasonings and musings are often inaccessible to anyone  
outside the courtroom, especially as proceedings cannot be taped or  
shared. This essay is about the Naz Foundation judgment and the  
petition against the anti-sodomy penal law in India. It archives the  
polemics between lawyers and judges, the asides of official processes  
and links these to video testimonies of homophobia and stigma, clips  
from movies and footage of pride marches.

Conversation on Dance and Beautiful Thing2
http://pad.ma/grid/title/padmini%20chettur
Padmini Chettur's contemporary dance performance beautiful thing2  
explores various ways in which the body becomes unlike itself. Her  
performances explore the body as an object in space and her sparse  
movements, borne in deliberate slowness, allow the viewer to  
viscerally connect with the body's line of flight. This performance is  
included here and annotated, including the dancer's comments.

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