CONTROL Joy Division Film Screening

Tuesday 17. February at 19:30 - 21:30

FOMO Secret Cinema, Tbilisi

Anton Corbijn | 2007 | UK/France | 2h2m | English language with English subtitles

CONTROL is film #2 in FOMO Secret Cinema's week-long Music Film Festival

CONTROL traces the brief life of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, charting the collision between artistic breakthrough and personal collapse. Shot in stark black and white, the film recreates late 1970s Britain as a landscape of factories, isolation, and sound that feels scraped from the inside of the mind.

Corbijn approaches Curtis less as a legend than as a young man overwhelmed by expectation. Music becomes both escape and pressure, a force that magnifies his vulnerabilities even as it creates beauty. The performances emphasize fragility over mythology, grounding the story in physical and emotional detail.

The result is a biopic that rejects glamor. CONTROL studies the cost of turning private anguish into public art, and asks how much a body can endure when it becomes the vessel for a voice larger than itself.

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

How to find FOMO: Enter the Bazari via Atoneli St above Carrefour and take the stairs on your left behind the jewellery stand. One flight up. Video instructions here: https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17933106294029235

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