Born in 1972 in Jabalpur, India
Ashish Avikunthak is an experimental filmmaker who has been making films in India since the mid-nineties. 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. He has had retrospective of his works at Les Inattendus, Lyon (2006), Yale University (2008), and the National Centre for Performing Arts, Mumbai (2008), Festival International Signes de Nuit, Paris (2012), Rice University (2014). He has a PhD in cultural anthropology from Stanford University and taught at Yale. He is now an Assistant Professor of Film Media at the Harrington School of Communication & Media, University of Rhode Island. He had a retrospective of his works at MUBI (2021-22).