Ashish Avikunthak
Ashish Avikunthak (February 11, 1972) is an Indian avant-garde filmmaker, film theorist, archaeologist and cultural anthropologist. He is considered to be an iconoclastic film artist who works outside Indian mainstream cinema. His films explore Indian philosophy and existentialism and are categorized by their use of unorthodox cinematography and editing. Avikunthak films are rooted in Indian religion, epistemology, ritual and form. ArtReview describes his works as: “Avikunthak's works insist on an Indian epistemology while utilising a rigorously formal visual language that is clearly aware of Western avant-garde practices such as those of Andrei Tarkovsky and Samuel Beckett. These are self-consciously difficult works that are filmed in a self-consciously beautiful way.”
Acting
Crew
Movie
Dispassionate Love
Director
2018
Movie
Vakratunda Swaha
Director
2010
Movie
Glossary of Non-Human Love
Director
2021
Movie
Shadows Formless
Director
2007
Movie
Kalighat Fetish
Director
1999
Movie
End Note
Director
2005
Movie
Performing Death
Director
2001
Movie
Rummaging for Pasts
Director
2001
Movie
Dancing Othello
Screenplay
2002
Movie
Rati Chakravyuh
Director
2014
Movie
Et cetera
Director
1997
Movie
Devastated
Director
2024