A still from Rati Chakravyuh
Ashish Avikunthak’s Rati Chakravyuh (2013) will have its international premiere at Aicon Gallery, New York, on October 22. If you are unfamiliar with Avikunthak’s cinema, then I recommend Rati Chakravyuh as an ideal primer for exploring some of his more intricate and philosophically oriented works. In the art and independent film circuits, Avikunthak is known as someone who is very much at the forefront of an exciting resurgence of experimental filmmaking in India. Selected as a 2014 great artist in Art Review’s annual list, he has been working in the medium of film for over a decade. He also teaches film at the University of Rhode Island and has curated film programmes devoted to showcasing non-mainstream film practices in India. Preferring to define himself as a film-artist than a filmmaker, Avikunthak’s films are mostly self-financed with modest budgets, and they have been exhibited in...
Ashish Avikunthak’s Rati Chakravyuh (2013) will have its international premiere at Aicon Gallery, New York, on October 22. If you are unfamiliar with Avikunthak’s cinema, then I recommend Rati Chakravyuh as an ideal primer for exploring some of his more intricate and philosophically oriented works. In the art and independent film circuits, Avikunthak is known as someone who is very much at the forefront of an exciting resurgence of experimental filmmaking in India. Selected as a 2014 great artist in Art Review’s annual list, he has been working in the medium of film for over a decade. He also teaches film at the University of Rhode Island and has curated film programmes devoted to showcasing non-mainstream film practices in India. Preferring to define himself as a film-artist than a filmmaker, Avikunthak’s films are mostly self-financed with modest budgets, and they have been exhibited in...
- 10/15/2014
- by Aparna Frank
- DearCinema.com
A still from Rati Chakravyuh
In the first of its kind premiere of a feature-length independent experimental film, Ashish Avikunthak’s Rati Chakravyuh will be screened in two art galleries in Mumbai and Kolkata starting today.
The film will be screened at Chatterjee & Lal from June 26 to August 2, and Experimenter Gallery in Kolkata from July 3-18. Both these galleries will screen the films 3 times a day.
Rati Chakravyuh consists of one single shot of 102 minutes.
In the Bengali film, six young newlywed couples and a priestess meet after a mass wedding in a desolate temple on a lunar eclipse midnight. They sit in a circle and talk. This is their last conversation – an exchange about life, death, beginning, end and everything in between. After a discussion that lasts more than an hour and a half, they commit mass suicide.
Ashish Avikunthak’s other films have been shown worldwide in film festivals,...
In the first of its kind premiere of a feature-length independent experimental film, Ashish Avikunthak’s Rati Chakravyuh will be screened in two art galleries in Mumbai and Kolkata starting today.
The film will be screened at Chatterjee & Lal from June 26 to August 2, and Experimenter Gallery in Kolkata from July 3-18. Both these galleries will screen the films 3 times a day.
Rati Chakravyuh consists of one single shot of 102 minutes.
In the Bengali film, six young newlywed couples and a priestess meet after a mass wedding in a desolate temple on a lunar eclipse midnight. They sit in a circle and talk. This is their last conversation – an exchange about life, death, beginning, end and everything in between. After a discussion that lasts more than an hour and a half, they commit mass suicide.
Ashish Avikunthak’s other films have been shown worldwide in film festivals,...
- 6/26/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
A still from Rati Chakravyuh
Indian filmmaker Ashish Avikunthak has been named as one of the “FutureGreats 2014″ by ArtReview, one of the oldest and leading contemporary art magazines in the world. Every March, ArtReview publishes a guide to 30 artists from all over the world, “FutureGreats”, to watch out for over the coming year, selected by an international panel of artists, critics and curators.
Avikunthak has been making films in India since the mid nineties. His filmograpy includes feature films Rati Chakravyuh (2013), Katho Upanishad (2011), Shadows Formless (2007) and several short films, which have been screened at festivals like Locarno and Rotterdam, art galleries and museums.
ArtReview has described his films as “self-consciously difficult works that are filmed in a self-consciously beautiful way.”
Avikunthak explains that viewing his films “creates a sensory and spiritual experience that is similar to visiting a temple, where the majority of worshipers do not have a literal understanding...
Indian filmmaker Ashish Avikunthak has been named as one of the “FutureGreats 2014″ by ArtReview, one of the oldest and leading contemporary art magazines in the world. Every March, ArtReview publishes a guide to 30 artists from all over the world, “FutureGreats”, to watch out for over the coming year, selected by an international panel of artists, critics and curators.
Avikunthak has been making films in India since the mid nineties. His filmograpy includes feature films Rati Chakravyuh (2013), Katho Upanishad (2011), Shadows Formless (2007) and several short films, which have been screened at festivals like Locarno and Rotterdam, art galleries and museums.
ArtReview has described his films as “self-consciously difficult works that are filmed in a self-consciously beautiful way.”
Avikunthak explains that viewing his films “creates a sensory and spiritual experience that is similar to visiting a temple, where the majority of worshipers do not have a literal understanding...
- 3/24/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
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