Phantas.ma

Clips, edits, sirens and phantoms from the annotated archives pad.ma, indiancine.ma and related sites. An invitation to absorb, discuss, navigate and contribute new and old time-based media, in a weekly rhythm. To feel the ideas in them, and their potential in and as art, film, daily life, new theory and use. Without the frameworks of social media ;)

Home page is refreshed every Monday, older weeks remain as long-term references.

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Home for recurring live streaming projects.

A roof-top venue that has been active since 2007, in this location since 2009.

Video project that takes us on new and recently rebuilt roads in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, and India. Endoscopic views from the interior of the road system, and of the interfaces through which pride, money, data, climate, and vulnerability are connected to it, heighten our sense of developmental possibility, failure, and the deep ambiguity of road achievements.

‘A Passage Through Passages’ is a collaboration with anthropologists, and draws upon ethnographic and archival work in five field sites. This film is part of Roads and the Politics of Thought, a 5-year ethnographic study of road-building in South Asia.

A never-ending project housed at CAMP around peoples histories of Bombay-Mumbai.

The New Medium was a curated programme for the Mumbai International Film Festival for three consecutive years (2016-2018). The inaugural program - in a twisted art-historical mode - framed cinema as a new medium (125 years old, when compared to the other arts), and scoured the century of cinema chronologically...

A space we built and run with others, located in the R and R colony of Lallubhai Compound, Mumbai.

AS IF is a series of exhibitions by CAMP across the winter /spring of 2014-15.

As If (I-V)

As If – I Rock, Paper, Scissors

EXPERIMENTER, Kolkata

January 7 - February 20 2015

As If – II Flight of the Black Boxes

24 JORBAGH, New Delhi

January 27 - February 24 2015

As If – III Country of the Sea

BHAU DHAJI LAD MUSEUM, Mumbai

February 21 - April 7 2015

As If – IV Night For Day

CHEMOULD PRESCOTT ROAD, Mumbai

March 9 - April 30 2015

As If – tV

Clark House Initiative, Mumbai

March 29 - May 20 2015

Pad.ma has a sister project.

Indiancine.ma is an annotated online archive of Indian film.

A project of listening, including with our ears, to some materials that seem to not touch us directly, but make up our "environment".

CAMP presents
Saturday or Sunday evening screenings through winter, exploring footage both within and outside the usual capsule of "the film". An experience that could be similar to watching films, or at other times harder to digest, or slower to release, closer to the moment of shooting, less censorious, and less fearful of finitude. Another life, another world of viewing and listening experiences is always possible.

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