Amit Dutta Movies

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

A nostalgic tale about childhood bazaars, scents and smells.

Amit Dutta recorded several conversations with Prof. B.N. Goswamy, an important art historian of India, covering his entire body of work....

The film is based on and inspired from the tinted brush drawings, sketches and some finished yet minimalistic works of the 18th century master...

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

The Ashokan rock-edict in a remote Himalayan village has the last fragment of a script only decipherable by few experts. Some miles away in Shimla,...

Suggestions of ancient and modern myths and folklore coalesce in dreams to bring alive a colourful animated world.

A boy plays with his balloon. Something unexpected happens.

The village artist Jangarh Singh Shyam left home and became a well-known contemporary painter. He committed suicide in 2001. Through his art, places...

The Kangra Valley of Himachal Pradesh has a living tradition of the age-old water distribution system regionally called 'kuhls'. The custodians of...

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...

The critic Max Nelson asks Amit Dutta a series of ten questions. He replies in the form of a video essay.

Kumar Gandharav, a child prodigy who subsequently became one of the finest and most original geniuses of Indian classical music, was struck by...

A boy loses faith in the book. The angry book starts calling the stories back.

A tribute to Jonas Mekas. A tree is cut down, a caterpillar climbs its own thread, and drops of moisture tremble on broad leaves.

This film explores various aspects of litterateur and painter Ram Kumar's personality by structuring the film around his stories and...

How do the vicissitudes of contemporary notions of nationhood alter our relationship with cultural patrimony? It’s a question obliquely...

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

Mother, Who Will Weave Now? attempts to sample and mirror the grand tapestry of Indian textile tradition and history by interweaving snippets of...

In Haren Das: 21 Studies of Life, Amit Dutta portrays the remarkable ability to infuse static images with vivid life, giving an immersive experience...