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Amshu Chukki is a multidisciplinary artist primarily exploring video/film based in Bengaluru and Hyderabad, India. In his work, experimental video and images become a way of imagining new worlds. His practice is site-informed and is an ongoing exploration of new ways of articulating ideas of landscape and cities through speculative fiction, cinematic excess, poetry, music, and geology in the context of rising political intolerance and environmental issues that emerge from the site.

Using the recce as a narrative device, his works dwell on the visible and not-so-visible interconnections between life, infrastructure, cinema, and urbanity, in the context of socio-political histories and the contemporary moment. His practice attempts to look at the re-imagination of image, sound, cinematic production, public space, politics, urban planning, and the role of the landscape through various protagonists that take from the site.

In his work, the landscape becomes a site for exercise that brings together various communities and their idiosyncrasies, where it initiates conversation from localized micro contexts to talk from a specific place. His experimental films spill out into drawings and sculptures that attempt to stage the city and landscape as a protagonist and challenge normative modes of a docu-fiction lens.