PADMA Archive Launch in Mumbai

<<LaunchDetails>> PADMA is an online archive of video material, primarily footage and not finished films, that has been densely text-annotated.The entire collection is searchable and viewable online, and is free to download for non-commercial use.

The design of the archive makes possible various types of "viewing" and contextualisation: from an overview of themes and timelines to much closer readings of transcribed dialogue and geographical location, to layers of writing: clip-level descriptions and other annotations by both archive contributors and online users.

The PAD.MA project is initiated by a group consisting of oil21.org from Berlin, the Alternative Law Forum from Bangalore, and three organisations from Mumbai: Majlis, Point of View and ChitrakarKhana /CAMP.