Aicon Gallery New York is delighted to invite you to the Press Preview and V.I.P. Screening for their week-long showing of the short films of experimental filmmaker Ashish Avikunthak. Kalighat Fetish (1999) and Vakratunda Swaha (2010) bookend a decade of Avikunthak's filmmaking career and present an in-depth exploration of a number of critical themes in his work. Anthropology and cinema, the persistence of epic and mythic structures in daily modern life, the intermingling of the sacred and the quotidian, and the narrative echoes of the old and archaic are just some of the recurring motifs through which Avikunthak's haunting films, using modernist cinema techniques, seek to examine and deconstruct post-colonial Indian culture. This will be the U.S. Premiere of Vakratunda Swaha.