Nick Cave & GG Allin - FOMO Film Double
Saturday 21. February at 14:45 - 16:40
FOMO Secret Cinema, Tbilisi
These two shorts comprise films #11 and #12 of FOMO Secret Cinema's week-long Music Film Week
Anders Østergaard | 1985 | Denmark | 0h50m | English language with English subtitles
NICK CAVE’S VEILED WORLD documents an early moment in Nick Cave’s career, capturing a musician still assembling the myth that would later surround him. The film follows Cave and his collaborators through rehearsals, performances, and conversations that reveal the tension between discipline and chaos driving the work.
Rather than presenting a finished icon, the documentary shows an artist in formation. Cave appears analytical and restless, treating songwriting as a deliberate construction of mood and persona. The camera lingers on process, emphasizing repetition, experimentation, and the fragile chemistry of a band inventing its own language.
The film becomes a portrait of creative emergence. It captures the point where ambition hardens into identity, preserving the raw blueprint of a figure who would go on to define an entire aesthetic.
Todd Phillips | 1993 | USA | 0h52m | English language with no subtitles
HATED: GG ALLIN AND THE MURDER JUNKIES confronts one of punk’s most extreme figures without softening the edges. The film observes GG Allin’s performances, offstage life, and devoted following, documenting a scene where provocation becomes philosophy.
Phillips refuses distance. The camera stays close to behavior designed to repel, forcing the audience to confront the boundary between performance art and self-destruction. Interviews with fans and family complicate the spectacle, revealing a network of loyalty built around a figure committed to total confrontation.
The documentary functions as an anatomy of shock. It studies how transgression becomes identity, and how a subculture organizes itself around a refusal of restraint.
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