Pad.ma – short for Public Access Digital Media Archive – is an online archive of densely text-annotated video material, primarily footage and not finished films. The entire collection is searchable and viewable online and is free to download for non-commercial use. We see Pad.ma as a non-state archive of video material, personally and politically gathered by cultural workers in the region. It is as a way of opening up a set of images, intentions and effects present in video footage, resources that conventions of video-making, editing and spectatorship have tended to suppress or leave behind. This expanded treatment leads us into lesser-known territory for video itself… beyond the finite documentary film or the online video clip.
padma grid
Afghanistan 70s fashion
Afghanistan Kabul University
Afghanistan Wedding
Case study of Muttakka a woman sheperd. Rural India. Lambani tribe.