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Ashish Avikunthak

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Directed movies: 9Directed series: 0All crew credits: 16

TMDB ID: 1393098

IMDb ID: nm3820149

Known for: Directing

Born: February 11, 1972

Age: 54

Place of birth: India

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1997 - 2026

Years active: 30

Wikidata: Q59180352

Also known as

Ashish Chadha • आशीष अविकुन्तक

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Director (9)Producer (2)Writer (2)Cinematography (1)Co-Writer (1)Screenplay (1)

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Biography

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.”

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