Ashish AVIKUNTHAK

Nationality: indian

Ashish Avikunthak is an experimental filmmaker who has been making films in India from the mid nineties. His films have been shown in various film festivals around the world. His short film Kalighat Fetish won the Best Documentary award in 2001 at the Tampere Film Festival, Finland. His films have been exhibited at the Tate Modern, London, Centre George Pompidou, Paris and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley among other locations. He has had retrospective of his works at Goethe Institute, Calcutta (2004), Les Inattendus, Lyon (2006) and at Yale University (2008). He has recently finished his first feature length film, Shadows Formless, which had its world premier at the Locarno Film Festival in 2007. He has a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Stanford University and currently teaches at Yale University.

3 MOVIES IN DISTRIBUTION

	ANTARAL 2005 / 16 mm / coul et n&b / sonore / 18' 00
	DANCING OTHELLO / BRIHANNALA KI KHELKAKI 2002 / 16 mm / coul / sonore / 18' 00
	KALIGHAT ATHIKATHA 1999 / 16 mm / coul et n&b / sonore / 22' 00