pan.do/mains

The Pad.ma/Pan.do/ra seeded archives and applications have grown roots, and we are happy to list them here. These include the stand alone pan.do/ra instances and also front-ended subsets of archives hosted in pad.ma.

Standalone installations of pan.do/ra:

Pad.ma and indiancine.ma
Pad.ma is an archive of densely text-annotated video material, primarily footage and not finished films. Indiancine.ma is an annotated archive of Indian film.

Bak.ma
bak.ma consists of voluminous video collections beginning from the 1960s until today covering political incidents and movements in Turkey's history. See more

858.ma
Mosireen Collectives Egypt Thawra Archive. See more

Leftove.rs
a shared archive of radical, anti-oppressive, and working class movements, and the material traces they have left.

Activist Media Project (AMP)
AMP is a UK archive of activist media in audio, video, photographs, pamphlets and graphics.

Also video art projects:

CDOSEA
Critical Dictionary of South East Asia with Ho Tzu Nyen.

Njp.ma
Mobile friendly read-only archive of Nam June Paik’s video material including lesser known documentaries directed by him, extensive documentation of Fluxus happenings and performances, source material for his video sculptures, and footage of the broadcast experiments. The annotated archive is at archive.njp.ma

fcra.with.camp
FCRA is an ongoing jointed project of CAMP with Forensic Architecture and Center for Research Architecture, making visible their own institutional engagements via methods, regions, funders and on the granular level with full text search across newly generated video transcripts.

Phantas.ma
The new platform for moving images and ideas that draws from pad.ma and indiancine.ma. See more

Phantas.ma/polis
The video art programme of the Asian Art Biennale along with 66 essays on the films. It’s all pulled from a small project of 17 films annotated inside of pad.ma.

Ghar Mein Shehar Hona: City Housing in a Cultural Matrix 1950 to 2020
An interactive web-based film in three parts, that journeys through a history of housing and its context in Bombay/Mumbai.

Pad.ma Tours
An automated walk through pad.ma, creating a desktop movie that uses the archive and its interface as a device for telling a story.


Older databases included the original pirate archive 0xDB and turkishcine.ma.