Slug It Out

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.