Ashish Avikunthak
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- February 11, 1972
- Birthplace
- India
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.”
Filmography
The Killing of Meghnad 2026
Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Production Design
Devastated 2024
Director, Writer
Glossary of Non-Human Love 2021
Director
Dispassionate Love 2018
Director, Screenplay, Dialogue, Editor, Producer
The Kali of Emergency 2017
Director
The Churning of Kalki 2015
Writer, Director
Rati Chakravyuh 2014
Co-Writer, Producer, Director
Katho Upanishad 2011
Producer, Writer, Story, Director
Vakratunda Swaha 2010
Actor, Director, Writer, Producer
Shadows Formless 2007
Writer, Director
End Note 2005
Director, Producer, Writer
Dancing Othello 2002
Screenplay, Director
Rummaging for Pasts 2001
Producer, Director, Editor, Sound Designer, Screenplay, Cinematography
Performing Death 2001
Cinematography, Director
Kalighat Fetish 1999
Director, Producer, Writer
Et cetera 1997
Director, Producer, Writer
Credits from TMDB.