Ashish Avikunthak

Directing·Feb 11, 1972·India

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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.”

Film	Credit
The Killing of Meghnad2026 · Writer, Director, Producer	Writer, Director, Producer
Devastated2024 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Glossary of Non-Human Love2021 · Director	Director
Dispassionate Love2018 · Director, Producer, Screenplay	Director, Producer, Screenplay
The Kali of Emergency2017 · Director	Director
The Churning of Kalki2015 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Rati Chakravyuh2014 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Katho Upanishad2011 · Producer, Writer, Director	Producer, Writer, Director
Vakratunda Swaha2010 · Actor, Director, Producer, Writer	Actor, Director, Producer, Writer
Shadows Formless2007 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
End Note2005 · Director, Producer, Writer	Director, Producer, Writer
Dancing Othello2002 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
Rummaging for Pasts2001 · Director, Producer, Screenplay	Director, Producer, Screenplay
Performing Death2001 · Director	Director
Kalighat Fetish1999 · Director, Producer, Writer	Director, Producer, Writer
Et cetera1997 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer