Aneek
Chaudhuri

Aneek Chaudhuri is an Indian filmmaker and theatre practitioner based in Kolkata, working across experimental cinema, essay film, and performance. His practice engages with duration, silence, and the instability of narrative, often exploring themes of memory, grief, and the metaphysical dimensions of human experience.

His films adopt a minimal, contemplative form, privileging stillness, fragmentation, and the tension between image and absence over linear storytelling. Drawing from both South Asian cultural contexts and global avant-garde traditions, his work situates itself within a cross-cultural dialogue on perception, time, and embodiment.

His recent works include A White Horse’s Neigh, The Zebras, and The Place Once Known as Earth and We, Homo Sapiens, spanning fiction and documentary forms while maintaining a consistent inquiry into psychological and existential states. The Zebras competed at the Oscars in 2025 and his film Cactus is preserved at the Oscars Archive.

Alongside his film practice, he founded the theatre collective The Ensemble, where he develops devised performances that intersect with his cinematic language.