The Epistemic Archaeology of Ashish Avikunthak

Cinema and Religiosity of Everyday Life
Herausgeber: Paunksnis, Sarunas; O'Donnell, Erin

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the diverse aspects of Ashish Avikunthak's work, whose films are art as resistance. For more than 25 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 made in the past decade-Rati Chakrayuh (2013), The Kali of Emergency (2016), Vrindavani Vairagya (2017), and several more projects in various stages of production. His body of work now amounts to seven short films and seven feature length works. These essays rigorously interrogate, contextualize, theorize, and interpret Avikunthak's multi-decade sustained artistic output. The current global assertion of authoritarianism and one-dimensional interpretations of cultural history and practice provide a timely and essential historical moment in which to dialogue with Avikunthak's films because his cinema consciously contests totalizing historical and artistic narratives and constructs frameworks of existential uncertainty and fragmentation that force us to reflect on the increasing political, economic, social, and climate chaos that is infusing and shaping our early 21st century global ontology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9798765105610
• Artikelnr.: 67611818

Autorenporträt

Sarunas Paunksnis is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology in Kaunas, Lithuania. He is the author of Dark Fear, Eerie Cities: New Hindi Cinema in Neoliberal India (2019) and editor of Dislocating Globality: Deterritorialization, Difference and Resistance (2016). Erin O'Donnell is an Associate Professor in the History & Geography Department at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania, USA. She is currently completing a manuscript for Bloomsbury about the cinema of Indian/Bengali filmmaker, Ritwik Ghatak.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Erin O'Donnell (East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania,
USA) and Sarunas Paunksnis (Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania) 1.
Circles of Thanatos is Ashish Avikunthak's Cinema: Can Dying be Death?
Arka Chattopadhyay (IIT Gandhinagar, India) 2. Suicide and the Erotic
Brinda Bose (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) 3. Familiar Tongue,
Unfamiliar Speech: On Ashish Avikunthak's 'Bengali' Films Anindya Sengupta
(Jadavpur University, India) 4. Discourse Against Time: The Barthesian
Fragment in Ashish Avikunthak's Shadows Formless Aparna Frank (New York
University, USA) 5. Machine for the Gods: Avikunthak's Oeuvre and the Form
of Cinematic Unity Swayam Bagaria (Johns Hopkins University, USA) 6.
Rituals of the Experimental in the Cinema of Ashish Avikunthak Hrishikesh
Ingle (The English and Foreign Languages University, India) 7.
Signification in Ashish Avikunthak's Cinema Gopalan Mullik (Presidency
University, India) 8. Angénieux to Infinite: Geometric Optics to Tantra
Prayoga in Avikunthak's Aural-Optical Amrit Gangar (Independent Scholar)
9. The Theatrical Image in Ashish Avikunthak's Films Arnab Banerji (Loyola
Marymount University, USA) 10. Gallery Encounters: Film Form and
Spectatorship in Films of Ashish Avikunthak Arup Ratan Samajdar (University
of Calcutta, India) 11. Durée, Ordinary and the Affect in Ashish
Avikunthak's Films Basab Mullik (Johns Hopkins University, USA) 12. Ashish
Avikunthak's Cinema of Dissent in an Authoritarian Age Erin O'Donnell (
East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania, USA) 13. Outside the
'Epistemological' Fold: Decolonial Praxis of Ashish Avikunthak Sarunas
Paunksnis (Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania) 14. An Interview
with Ashish Avikunthak Erin O'Donnell (East Stroudsburg University of
Pennsylvania, USA) and Sarunas Paunksnis (Kaunas University of Technology,
Lithuania) Index