117-119 Clerkenwell Road, London
Fri 21 Aug · 18:30
A wounded private detective, searching for a missing woman, stumbles into the decaying estate of a mother and daughter whose lives revolve around sadistic ritual, role-play, and psychological domination. Captured and subjected to their shifting fantasies, he becomes an unwilling participant in a closed-loop world where grief, desire, and violence merge into a delirious theatricality. As identities blur and power dynamics mutate, the house transforms into a claustrophobic arena of obsession and irreversible degradation. A defining entry in the extreme European underground of the late 1980s and early 1990s, Singapore Sling fuses film noir tropes with surrealist melodrama and confrontational exploitation aesthetics. Nikolaidis deploys high-contrast black-and-white cinematography, mannered performances, and deliberately disorienting tonal shifts to create a work that is both perversely stylised and defiantly abrasive — a meditation on mourning and madness rendered through operatic excess.