WHIPLASH Film Screening - FOMO Film Fest
Wednesday 18. February at 19:30 - 21:17
FOMO Secret Cinema, Tbilisi
Damien Chazelle | 2014 | USA | 1h47m | English language with English subtitles
WHIPLASH is film #4 in FOMO Secret Cinema's week-long Music Film Fest
WHIPLASH is a pressure chamber about ambition, mentorship, and the violent pursuit of perfection. The film follows a young jazz drummer pushed to physical and psychological extremes by a teacher who believes greatness requires cruelty.
Chazelle shoots rehearsals like combat. Every beat becomes a test of endurance, turning music into a battlefield where discipline and obsession blur. The performances emphasize how praise and humiliation can coexist inside the same system, feeding a cycle that promises transcendence while threatening collapse.
The film asks what success is worth when achievement demands self-destruction. WHIPLASH frames art as both liberation and trap, a force capable of creating brilliance at catastrophic personal cost.
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 as soon as you walk in. FOMO is one flight up. Video instructions here: https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17933106294029235
FOMO Secret Cinema • Bazari Orbeliani, 0102 Tbilisi, Georgia