[Reader-list] 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 studies 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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