Re:Mind Film Festival Presents a Conversation with Ashish Avikunthak

14:30 – May 10, 2026

King's College London – Strand Campus, WC2R 2LS

Room KIN 623 (Anatomy Museum)

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), which you can book here.

Re:Mind is a festival bringing some of the most exciting new voices in Asian cinema for the first time to London, with the aim of showcasing film’s power to heal. Through its film programme and workshops, Re:Mind promotes mindfulness, community-building, and alternative forms of resistance. Its first edition runs from May 7 to 17 at the Garden Cinema and King’s College London.

For more details about the festival and other events, visit our website:

https://remindff.org.uk/

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