Ashish Avikunthak

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1972-02-11 (52 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 and Samuel Beckett. These are self-consciously difficult works that are filmed in a self-consciously beautiful way.”

Known For

Director

Meghnad Badh Kavya

as Director

2024
Devastated

as Director

2018
Dispassionate Love

as Director

2017
2015
2014
Rati Chakravyuh

as Director

2011
Katho Upanishad

as Director

2010
Vakratunda Swaha

as Director

2007
Shadows Formless

as Director

2005
End Note

as Director

2002
Dancing Othello

as Director

2001
Performing Death

as Director

2001
1999
Kalighaat Fetish

as Director

1997
Et cetera

as Director

Writer

2024
Devastated

as Writer

2018
Dispassionate Love

as Dialogue

2018
Dispassionate Love

as Screenplay

2015
2014
Rati Chakravyuh

as Co-Writer

2011
Katho Upanishad

as Writer

2011
2010
2007
2005
End Note

as Writer

2002
Dancing Othello

as Screenplay

2001
Rummaging for Pasts

as Screenplay

1999
1997
Et cetera

as Writer

Producer

2018
Dispassionate Love

as Producer

2014
Rati Chakravyuh

as Producer

2011
Katho Upanishad

as Producer

2010
Vakratunda Swaha

as Producer

2005
End Note

as Producer

2001
1999
Kalighaat Fetish

as Producer

1997
Et cetera

as Producer

Crew

2001
Performing Death

as Cinematography

2001
Rummaging for Pasts

as Cinematography

Editor

2018
2001

Sound

2001
Rummaging for Pasts

as Sound Designer