JODOROWSKY'S DUNE Documentary Week at FOMO Cinema Tbilisi

FOMO Cinema Presents: The Art of the Documentary

A week of failed productions, obsessive directors and impossible shoots - this week at FOMO is dedicated to the underappreciated art of documentary filmmaking, and to the filmmakers stubborn enough to keep pointing the camera when common sense suggests they should pack it in.

JODOROWSKY'S DUNE

Frank Pavich | 2013 | France/USA | 1h30m | Presented in the original English, French, German and Spanish audio with English subtitles

JODOROWSKY’S DUNE is a documentary about one of cinema’s great beautiful disasters: a science fiction epic so ambitious, so expensive, and so completely unreasonable that it never actually got made.

In the 1970s, Chilean-French filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky set out to adapt Frank Herbert’s DUNE into a film that would change the consciousness of everyone who saw it. That was not a modest production aim. His proposed cast included Salvador Dalí, Orson Welles, Mick Jagger and David Carradine. The design team brought together artists whose influence would later run through modern science fiction and fantasy cinema, including Moebius, H.R. Giger, Chris Foss and Dan O’Bannon.

The finished film does not exist, which is part of the fascination. Pavich’s documentary reconstructs the project through interviews, concept art, storyboards, music, and Jodorowsky’s own tremendous appetite for mythmaking. What emerges is a film about imagination before compromise arrives. It’s also about how an unmade movie can still leave fingerprints everywhere, from ALIEN to later visions of cinematic science fiction.

Presented as part of FOMO’s Documentary Week, JODOROWSKY’S DUNE is cinema-on-cinema at its most intoxicating. It asks whether a failed film can still matter, whether influence needs a finished product, and whether madness and genius are sometimes just two departments fighting over the same budget. For anyone interested in science fiction, cult cinema, impossible productions, or directors with absolutely no interest in being realistic, this is one of the great films about a film that never was.

FOOD AND DRINK POLICY: FOMO Cinema Lounge Bar opens 1 hour before the first screening of the day and closes at 02:00,.serving a wide selection of beer, wine, cocktails, and non-alcoholic refreshments including coffee and tea, as well as fresh hot popcorn! Outside food is allowed in the bar but not in the cinema. No alcohol from outside allowed. All guests are invited to arrive early and stay late!

LOCATION: FOMO Secret Cinema, Bazari Orbeliani, Tbilisi. A five minute walk from Liberty Square metro.

HOW TO FIND FOMO: Enter Bazari Orbeliani via Atoneli St above Carrefour and take the stairs on your left to Level 1. Signage on the door. You can also check our Instagram story highlights for a video showing exactly how to find us:
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