Amit Dutta Movies

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...

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...

An ascetic walks through the narrow streets of a village every morning while his family is still asleep. In his semi-somnolent state he dreams about...

After a successful season in the Upper Dhauladhar Mountains, a hunter hides his meat in a cave and heads home with his first load. At home, his wife...

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...

Led by mysterious sounds and footprints, a painter wanders within a surreal space of the forest, his own paintings and oneiric spaces.

The portrait of Eberhard Fischer, a Swiss ethnographer and art historian whose life has been devoted to documenting artistic practices across...

A nostalgic tale about childhood bazaars, scents and smells.

When a gallery of paintings becomes emptied of its spectators, the curtains raise within the paintings.

The 18th-century Indian painter Nainsukh of Guler receives a poetic, visually stunning tribute from a young Indian filmmaker employing an arresting...

Professor B.N. Goswamy travels back along the path of some forty years’ research on the 18th century Indian master-painter Nainsukh. Field-Trip...

A grandmother tells the story of partition (almost like a mythic tale) while her young granddaughter witnesses contemporary political reality....

A rare and intimate glimpse into the everyday life of the famously reclusive and creative Warli tribe. Ramkhind is a village in Thane district, a...

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 project attempts to push the boundaries of cinema by juxtaposing it with ideas from philosophy, visual art, chess, mathematics, geometry,...

This short-film was made by Amit Dutta to encapsulate some essential teachings of Kashmir Shaivism as taught by Bettina Sharada Baeumer. The film was...

In Himachal Pradesh’s Kangra Valley, an ancient network of kuhls – hand-built water channels – carries water. The kohlis,...

The Many Interrupted Dreams of Mr. Hemmady explores the unintentional and fantastical narratives contained within matchbox art, delving into the...

Two philosophers discuss their ideas. The next day one of them is getting married and invites the others.

Jangarh Singh Shyam, a famous Indian artist born in an isolated tribal village, committed suicide in a Japanese museum in 2001. I found on an old...