BIG TIME Tom Waits Concert Screening
Tuesday 17. February at 17:30 - 19:00
FOMO Secret Cinema, Tbilisi
Chris Blum | 1988 | USA | 1h28m | English language with subtitles
BIG TIME is presented as film #1 in FOMO's week-long Music Week film fest
BIG TIME captures Tom Waits at the height of his theatrical reinvention, blending concert performance with surreal stage comedy. Part vaudeville act, part musical confession, the film turns a live show into a cinematic portrait of an artist building a world from smoke, rhythm, and gravelly poetry.
Waits doesn’t simply perform songs. He inhabits characters, sketches scenes, and transforms the stage into a traveling carnival of broken romantics and late-night philosophers. The camera leans into the artifice, emphasizing the constructed myth of a performer who treats identity itself as material.
More than a concert film, BIG TIME is a study of persona and performance. It shows how music can become theatre, and how theatre can become autobiography, blurring the line between sincerity and invention.
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