May 10 – 14:30
King’s College London, Strand Campus
After the conversation, join us for a screening of Devastated at King’s College London, Strand Campus.
Ashish Avikunthak is an Indian avant-garde filmmaker, film theorist, archaeologist and cultural anthropologist. His films have been shown worldwide in film festivals, galleries and museums, and they have been the subject of more than a dozen retrospectives and eighteen solo shows. Read more here.
In 2025, Bloomsbury University Press published The Epistemic Archeology of Ashish Avikunthak, a book exploring Avikunthak’s storied, three-decade-long career. Most of his films are self-funded, and they challenge both Western cinematic practises and ideological hegemonies of present-day India. He makes the moving image a mode of philosophy, deconstructing religion and authoritarianism through the very act of filmmaking.
Today, he is joining us for a virtual conversation at King’s College London, moderated by Dr Sarah Niazi and followed, later in the evening, by a screening of his recent feature film Devastated (2024).
