Born 1972, in Jabalpur, India.
Ashish Avikunthak is an experimental Indian filmmaker, active in his career since the mid-nineties. 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. Avikunthak 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), and 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).