Filmmaker and media artist Shaina Anand has been working independently in film/ video since 1997. In 2001, she founded ChitraKarKhana (www.chitrakarkhana.net), a fully independent unit for experimental media Her work considers the shifting agencies within contemporary video and its terrains of operation, and is informed by an interest in media and information politics, and by a critique of documentary form and process. Her projects often articulate utopian possibilities, and produce new and temporary relationships across communities. She has worked with “media” such as cable television, CCTV, and workshop-based pedagogy. In 2008 she also co-initiated PAD.MA, the Public Access Digital Media Archive.