Rahul has joined EKA as a doctoral student-junior researcher since August 2024. His article-based doctoral thesis is centered on Russian-Estonian identity representations in contemporary documentaries as well as video and visual art. In particular, he is analyzing works of Eléonore de Montesquiou, Kristina Norman and Marianna Kaat among others.
In addition to his thesis, Rahul’s book titled The Phantasmagorical and Ethnographic World of Amit Dutta is nearing publication. The book charts out the filmmaker’s work and concentrates on finding thematic, artistic and stylistic observations; it places Dutta’s works into an art historical-film prism as well as analyses his ethnographic and museum films that linger on the boundaries between animation fusing with the real, self-reflexivity and ancient Indian aesthetics.
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