On Saturday 3rd September 2022, Thamesmead Travelling Cinema stages the first public screening of A Clockwork Orange, a film that used the newly-built Thamesmead as a backdrop for the home of the lead character Alex, played by Malcolm McDowell.
Set in a post-apocalyptic bunker-like environment, Apocalypse Postponed will be Abbas’s literal and conceptual construction of a ‘safe haven’ and will draw inspiration from a range of sources, from cult science fiction films including A Clockwork Orange, Dune and Alien, to 20th century defensive plans and fortifications such as the Swiss National Redoubt and Atlantic Wall.
