PARIS IS BURNING: FOMO Cinema Tbilisi
Monday 29. June at 18:30 - Sunday 5. July at 19:48
FOMO Secret Cinema, Tbilisi
PARIS IS BURNING
Jennie Livingston | 1990 | UK/USA | 1h18m | Presented in the original English audio with English subtitles
PARIS IS BURNING opens the door to a world that mainstream culture spent years borrowing from.
Shot in New York in the late 1980s, Jennie Livingston’s documentary enters the city’s ballroom scene, where Black and Latino queer and trans communities built their own systems of style, status, family, competition, and survival. The film introduces houses, balls, categories, voguing, reading, realness, and the chosen families that gave people structure when the outside world offered rejection or worse.
What makes PARIS IS BURNING endure is the clarity of its subjects. Dorian Corey, Pepper LaBeija, Venus Xtravaganza, Willi Ninja, Angie Xtravaganza, and others speak with humour, intelligence, ambition, sadness, and absolute command of their own image. The film never reduces ballroom culture to spectacle. It shows performance as social code, protection, fantasy, and critique.
The documentary has become essential to the history of queer cinema, fashion, dance, drag, and pop culture. Its influence is everywhere, from music videos to reality television to the language people now use without knowing where it came from. it captures joy and invention, but also poverty, racism, homophobia, violence, and the cost of wanting to be seen by a world refuses to accept you.
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: https://www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2h0OjE3OTMzMTA2Mjk0MDI5MjM1
FOMO Secret Cinema • Bazari Orbeliani, 0105 Tbilisi, Georgia
