Ashish Avikunthak - Artists

Ashish Avikunthak - Reincarnation #1

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Ashish Avikunthak is a filmmaker and a cultural anthropologist who has been making films in India for more than 25 years. His films have been shown worldwide in film festivals, galleries and museums. Notable screenings were at the Tate Modern, London, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, along with London, Locarno, Rotterdam, and Berlin film festivals among other locations. His films have been the subject of more than a dozen retrospectives most recently at Wolf Kino, Berlin (2019), Kino Klub, Split, Croatia (2019), Pungent Film Series, Athens, Greece (2018), Centre for Moving Image Arts, Bard College (2015), Apeejay Arts Gallery, New Delhi (2015), Rice University (2014). He has a PhD in cultural anthropology from Stanford University and has taught at Yale University. He is now an Associate Professor in Film/Media at Harrington School of Communication, University of Rhode Island. Avikunthak was included as a "Future Greats" artist in 2014 by Art Review magazine. Lives and works in Calcutta, Bombay and Providence.

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