Ashish Avikunthak

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1972-02-11 (53 years old)

Place of Birth

India

Ashish Avikunthak

Biography

Ashish Avikunthak (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...

Acting

Production

2001

Performing Death

as Director

2001

Performing Death

as Cinematography

2001

2001

2001

Rummaging for Pasts

as Screenplay

2001

Rummaging for Pasts

as Sound Designer

2001

2001

Rummaging for Pasts

as Cinematography

2002

Dancing Othello

as Screenplay

2007

Shadows Formless

as Director

2007

2014

Rati Chakravyuh

as Director

2014

Rati Chakravyuh

as Producer

2014

Rati Chakravyuh

as Co-Writer

2010

Vakratunda Swaha

as Director

1999

Kalighaat Fetish

as Director

1997

Et cetera

as Director

2005

End Note

as Director

2002

Dancing Othello

as Director

2024

Devastated

as Director

2024

Devastated

as Writer

2017

-

2011

Katho Upanishad

as Producer

2011

2011

2011

Katho Upanishad

as Director

2018

2018

2018

2018

2018

Dispassionate Love

as Screenplay

2015

1997

Et cetera

as Writer

2005

End Note

as Producer

1997

Et cetera

as Producer

2005

End Note

as Writer

1999

Kalighaat Fetish

as Producer

1999

2010

Vakratunda Swaha

as Producer

2010

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