Ashish Avikunthak
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- February 11, 1972
- Place of birth
- India
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.”
Movies with Ashish Avikunthak
- Vakratunda Swaha 2010 · ★ 7.0
Movies directed by Ashish Avikunthak
- Dispassionate Love 2018 · ★ 3.3
- Vakratunda Swaha 2010 · ★ 7.0
- Glossary of Non-Human Love 2021 · ★ 1.0
- Shadows Formless 2007 · ★ 5.0
- End Note 2005 · ★ 6.0
- Kalighat Fetish 1999 · ★ 5.0
- Performing Death 2001
- Rummaging for Pasts 2001
- Rati Chakravyuh 2014
- Et cetera 1997
- Dancing Othello 2002
- Devastated 2024
- The Kali of Emergency 2017
- The Killing of Meghnad 2026
- Katho Upanishad 2011
- The Churning of Kalki 2015