The Epistemic Archeology of Ashish Avikunthak: Cinema and Religiosity of Everyday Life

This book explores the diverse aspects of Ashish Avikunthak's cinema, which challenges Western knowledge systems and cinematic practices, as well as ideological hegemonies of present-day India.

For thirty years, Indian filmmaker Ashish Avikunthak has been making self-financed films that have robustly resisted capital and market logic. Starting from his early 16mm short films Etcetera (1997) and Kalighat Fetish (1999) to longer feature length works that he has been making since the past decad...