Ashish Avikunthak
Born: 1972-02-11 in India
Known For: Directing
Biography
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.”
Filmography
2024
- Devastated ... (Director)
2021
- Glossary of Non-Human Love ... (Director)
2018
- Dispassionate Love ... (Director)
2017
- The Kali of Emergency ... (Director)
2015
- The Churning of Kalki ... (Director)
2014
- Rati Chakravyuh ... (Director)
2011
- Katho Upanishad ... (Producer)
2010
2007
- Shadows Formless ... (Director)
2005
- End Note ... (Director)
2002
- Dancing Othello ... (Screenplay)
2001
- Performing Death ... (Director)
- Rummaging for Pasts ... (Director)
1999
- Kalighaat Fetish ... (Director)
1997
- Et cetera ... (Director)