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Amit Dutta (Hindi: अमित दत्ता; born 5 September 1977 in Jammu) is an Indian experimental filmmaker and screenwriter. He is considered to be one of the most significant contemporary practitioners of experimental cinema, known for his distinctive style of filmmaking rooted in Indian aesthetic theories and personal symbolism resulting in images that are visually rich and acoustically stimulating. His works mostly deal with subjects of art history, ethno-anthropology and cultural inheritance through cinema, many times merging research and documentation with an open imagination.
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20 September 2019
A tribute to Jonas Mekas. A tree is cut down, a caterpillar climbs its own thread, and drops of moisture tremble on broad leaves.
03 May 2007
An ascetic walks through the narrow streets of a village every morning while his family is still asleep.
16 June 2022
In ‘Abhagir Swargo’ the mother Abhaghi is a lower caste woman, whose only dream was that after her death she should be cremated with full rituals like the high-caste Hindus.
01 January 2003
A rare and intimate glimpse into the everyday life of the famously reclusive and creative Warli tribe.
04 May 2024
The Many Interrupted Dreams of Mr. Hemmady explores the unintentional and fantastical narratives contained within matchbox art, delving into the interplay of dreams, desires, and histories, presenting them as a chaotic yet meaningful mosaic of knowledge and wisdom, all while embracing the paradoxical nature of collecting and creation.
28 August 2013
Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.
01 January 2021
Dutta’s new feature finds Hindi experimental writer Krishna Baldev Vaid (1927–2020)—who was born in what is now Pakistan and migrated to India during Partition—living with his daughter in a small apartment in New York.
11 November 2012
Amit Dutta recorded several conversations with Prof. B.N. Goswamy, an important art historian of India, covering his entire body of work.
01 January 2004
A stream of mysterious rituals and symbols are encountered as a young boy journeys to school in the fantastical world of Kshya Tra Ghya.
16 November 2013
Led by mysterious sounds and footprints, a painter wanders within a surreal space of the forest, his own paintings and oneiric spaces.
22 April 2011
The 18th-century Indian painter Nainsukh of Guler receives a poetic, visually stunning tribute from a young Indian filmmaker employing an arresting pictorial language.
01 January 2016
The film is based on and inspired from the tinted brush drawings, sketches and some finished yet minimalistic works of the 18th century master miniature painter Nainsukh.
31 December 2013
The 18th century Pahari miniatures illustrating the verses of 'Gita Govinda' by the poet Jayadeva, are also loving and intimate portraits of the verdant landscape of the Kangra Valley.
09 September 2011
Two travelers are in search of a flying-craft, which they believe could possibly take them to the ultimate escape from the cycle of births.
11 August 2020
The project attempts to push the boundaries of cinema by juxtaposing it with ideas from philosophy, y
30 January 2005
Suggestions of ancient and modern myths and folklore coalesce in dreams to bring alive a colourful animated world.
21 April 2017
The film juxtaposes two journeys, one in search of the name of a Pahari painter lost in genealogical registers, and the other in search of a lake once called the eighth wonder of the world.
01 January 2016
A thespian rehearses a Sanskrit play from 2nd century CE. The footage is robbed of sound. The inter-titles try to tell the story.
03 October 2022
Culled from over 5,000 photographs by Jyoti Bhatt (b. 1934) from the collection of Bengaluru’s Museum of Art and Photography, this short film pays respect to an artist whose body of work is a portrait of the Indian nation and offers a poetic visual and sonic journey across land and time.
18 March 2020
Jangarh Singh Shyam, a famous Indian artist born in an isolated tribal village, committed suicide in a Japanese museum in 2001.
01 January 2020
The Kangra Valley of Himachal Pradesh has a living tradition of the age-old water distribution system regionally called 'kuhls'.
17 April 2017
The Ashokan rock-edict in a remote Himalayan village has the last fragment of a script only decipherable by few experts.
01 January 2017
The critic Max Nelson asks Amit Dutta a series of ten questions. He replies in the form of a video essay.
01 January 2013
Professor B.N. Goswamy travels back along the path of some forty years’ research on the 18th century Indian master-painter Nainsukh.
01 January 2008
The village artist Jangarh Singh Shyam left home and became a well-known contemporary painter. He committed suicide in 2001.
16 June 2017
A boy plays with his balloon. Something unexpected happens.
03 December 2023
In Haren Das: 21 Studies of Life, Amit Dutta portrays the remarkable ability to infuse static images with vivid life, giving an immersive experience to Das’s printmaking, wood engravings, etching, and linocut, used to capture landscapes, seascapes, and flora and fauna indigenous to the Bengal region.
03 September 2017
Two philosophers discuss their ideas. The next day one of them is getting married and invites the others.
19 January 2019
An eighteenth-century notebook from the Western Himalayan Hills has recorded in it dreams as omens. Scenes from the waking memory of the artist seem to have enlivened dreams from a bygone era.
23 March 2025
In Himachal Pradesh’s Kangra Valley, an ancient network of kuhls – hand-built water channels – carries water.
14 October 2020
How do the vicissitudes of contemporary notions of nationhood alter our relationship with cultural patrimony? It’s a question obliquely suggested by Amit Dutta’s latest film.
02 December 2023
A film on the art of the revered Indian painter Jamini Roy (1887-1972). Could we reach out to nature through his seemingly flat colours and establish the diversity in this uniformity? A Thousand Colours of Jamini Roy explores the intricate world of modern artist Jamini Roy’s natural pigments and colours that are each rendered unique unlike the shades of the digital world today.
12 September 2009
A series of three episodes which explore the relationship between men, women and the physical and mental spaces they inhabit.
11 April 2022
Mother, Who Will Weave Now? attempts to sample and mirror the grand tapestry of Indian textile tradition and history by interweaving snippets of Indian cloth on an editing table, using the poetic meters of classical Indian literature sewn together with the words and motifs of the weaver-saint Kabir.
06 February 2015
When a gallery of paintings becomes emptied of its spectators, the curtains raise within the paintings.
03 October 2015
This film explores various aspects of litterateur and painter Ram Kumar's personality by structuring the film around his stories and paintings, traveling between fragments of his past, present, fiction and imagery.
20 October 2024
Kumar Gandharav, a child prodigy who subsequently became one of the finest and most original geniuses of Indian classical music, was struck by tuberculosis at the height of his abilities.
01 January 2004
A grandmother tells the story of partition (almost like a mythic tale) while her young granddaughter witnesses contemporary political reality.
15 August 2019
Guler, a small principality near Kangra, was an artistic and cultural wellspring since it's accidental inception in the 15th century.
10 September 2017
Towards the end of the eighth century, an architect journeys across the lower Himalayas in search of the perfect site for constructing a temple, not merely as a place of worship but as a monumental record crystallizing the collective accomplishment of a civilization.
31 October 2023
An homage to the influential practice and philosophy of artist Nasreen Mohamedi. The film incorporates Mohamedi’s personal notes and her unique singular vision, drawing upon the aesthetics of the bare line, and its metaphysical journey eliminating physical borders/barriers.
07 December 2021
A nostalgic tale about childhood bazaars, scents and smells.
27 February 2024
This short-film was made by Amit Dutta to encapsulate some essential teachings of Kashmir Shaivism as taught by Bettina Sharada Baeumer.
27 March 2026
The portrait of Eberhard Fischer, a Swiss ethnographer and art historian whose life has been devoted to documenting artistic practices across cultures, from mask carvers in Africa to painters in India.
