Slug It Out [Film Premiere]

Leo Luchini bringt sein Album Slug It Out auf die Leinwand. Das delphi LUX zeigt den Film, der als Konzertmitschnitt und inszeniertes Theaterstück konzipiert ist. Auf der Bühne verschmelzen Musik, Tanz und Performance. Beteiligt sind unter anderem Göksu Kunak, Bilgesu Akyürek und Leo Luther. Die Inszenierung nutzt Ästhetiken von Mafia-Filmen und Überwachung, um innere Konflikte körperlich greifbar zu machen. Die Kamera agiert als aktiver Beobachter. Sie wechselt zwischen intimen Momenten und der Distanz eines Tatorts, während die Grenzen zwischen Vorbereitung und Konsequenz verschwimmen.

Leo Luchini announces the official cinematic companion to his debut album Slug It Out. The film translates the album’s viscerally volatile world into an integrative film: a stunt-laced live concert in the style of an art-house psychological erotic thriller. The band shares the stage with a cast of performers, including artist Göksu Kunak, dancer Bilgesu Akyürek and vocalist Leo Luther. Movement, voice, suspension and seduction become extensions of the album’s emotional architecture, giving physical form to its entanglements of anger, vulnerability, surrender and control. The stage design and performance script draw upon the same cultures of collision and punishment that shaped Slug It Out: pre-game rituals, ring entrances, mafia cinema, surveillance aesthetics, paparazzi culture and the charged anticipation preceding impact. Reconfigured as metaphors for inner turmoil, these references create a confrontational theatre in which preparation and consequence begin to blur. Performed and shot in front of a live audience in Berlin, the film treats the stage as both crime scene and psychic interior. The cameras operate as active participants - pursuing, surveilling and implicating the performers while moving between intimacy and violation. Supported by Trauma Arts & Culture and Unguarded, Berlin.