AMSHU CHUKKI

Different Danny
and Other Stories

Behind the cinematic image are invisible processes of divination – bodies and
apparatus that converge to form contraptions for production. Several practices and
objects associated with cinema are often identified using terminology only
understood by those in the the filmmaking fraternity. This invisibility is both violence
and possibility to those it envelopes. In Different Danny and Other Stories, Amshu
Chukki foregrounds these skills, devices and conditions to conjure an atmosphere
that complicates labour and its relationship to the architecture of cinema.

Here, props, stands, temporary sets and stretchable bodies enmesh with desire,
demand and danger to come to terms with the inevitability of adjustment and
change. It either mimics or it challenges the natural – conditions such as
temperature, season and light are either resisted or required, for example. Through
film, installations and paintings, Chukki delves into cinematic time through and with
these ‘background’ protagonists. Nonlinear, ductile and sometimes suspended: time
is unraveled against its very source – the spectacular city.

~ Mario D'Souza