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Ashish Avikunthak
India
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 art…
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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.”
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2026
The Killing of Meghnad
Movie Writer
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2024
Devastated
Movie Director
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2021
Glossary of Non-Human Love
Movie Director
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2018
Dispassionate Love
Movie Director
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2017
The Kali of Emergency
Movie Director
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2015
The Churning of Kalki
Movie Director
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2014
Rati Chakravyuh
Movie Director
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2011
Katho Upanishad
Movie Producer
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2010
Vakratunda Swaha
Movie
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2007
Shadows Formless
Movie Director
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2005
End Note
Movie Director
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2002
Dancing Othello
Movie Screenplay
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2001
Rummaging for Pasts
Movie Director
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2001
Performing Death
Movie Director
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1999
Kalighat Fetish
Movie Director
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1997
Et cetera
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