Indian filmmaker, film theorist, and archaeologist (born 1972)
Ashish Avikunthak (born 1972) is an Indian avant-garde filmmaker, film theorist, archaeologist and cultural anthropologist.[1][2] His works have been screened at art galleries and private screenings, including Tate Modern, Centre George Pompidou, Paris Film Archive; along with Rotterdam, Locarno, London film festivals, among others.[3] He is a professor of film media at Harrington School of Communication, University of Rhode Island.[4][5][6]
He is considered to be an iconoclastic film artist[7] who works outside Indian mainstream cinema.[8] 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.[9] Mythical, metaphysical, metaphorical and mundane elements are found in his work.[10] 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.”[11] In his essay "Cinema of Prayoga", Amrit Gangar names Avikunthak's films as an example of his eponymous strain of filmmaking.[12][13][14]
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