The Vase Falls Thrice

In the outskirts of South Bangalore, ordinary homes become temporary film sets—spaces where domestic life is quietly rearranged to serve the fictions of serial television. The Vase Falls Thrice traces this strange choreography between cinema and architecture, routine and disruption, labour and leisure.

Amshu Chukki brings together a suite of drawings and screenplay fragments based on his time spent observing shoots in rented residential houses. Unable to film, he became a witness: measuring floor plans, tracking the movement of crews and props, and noting the everyday negotiations between residents and the machinery of production.

Through layered architectural drawings and notational scripts, the book captures moments when cinema embeds itself into domestic life—when a curtain is changed, a dining table becomes an autopsy bed, or a child in the house steps into the frame. This is a portrait of homes that become porous, where the language of cinema is spoken in passing, and architecture becomes a site of staging, mapping, and rehearsal.