Rahul Sharma’s book “The Phantasmagorical, Art-Historical And (Beyond) Ethnographic World Of Amit Dutta” on Amit Dutta offers an insightful and theoretically rich exploration of one of contemporary India’s most significant experimental filmmakers. Through close readings of Dutta’s films, Sharma brings together cultural history and critical theory to illuminate the aesthetic and intellectual complexity of works deeply engaged with Indian art and cultural traditions. The result is an original example of transcultural film analysis that bridges South Asian visual traditions with global debates on experimental cinema and cultural modernity.”
— Prof. Andres Kurg, Head of the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture, Estonian Academy of Arts
Rahul Sharma is a researcher at the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture, Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA), Tallinn. His work examines cross-cultural exchange in visual art and cinema, with a focus on how artistic forms circulate across historical, geographic, and ideological boundaries. He is currently completing a doctoral dissertation on Russian–Estonian identities in contemporary visual art and documentary film, combining art-historical inquiry with close analysis of moving-image practices.