VANISHING POINT: Desert Visions Film Week at FOMO Cinema Tbilisi
Friday 26. June at 19:00 - 20:40
FOMO Secret Cinema, Tbilisi
June 23-28 FOMO presents Desert Visions, a journey through some of cinema's most unforgettable deserts. From Australian outback nightmares and American road movies to spaghetti westerns, Soviet science fiction, spiritual quests, and stories of people searching for meaning at the edge of civilisation. These are films about vast landscapes, strange encounters, reinvention, survival, and what happens when the familiar world falls away.
VANISHING POINT
Richard C. Sarafian | 1971 | USA | English | 1h39m
There are road movies and then there is VANISHING POINT.
The premise could hardly be simpler. A former racing driver named Kowalski is tasked with delivering a Dodge Challenger from Colorado to San Francisco. After making a reckless bet that he can complete the journey in record time, he points the car west and never really stops.
What follows is one of the purest expressions of freedom ever put on film.
The plot is almost incidental. What matters is the movement. Endless highways. Desert horizons. Police roadblocks. Radio broadcasts. The sensation of a man disappearing into the landscape while an entire country tries and fails to catch him.
Like many of the best films of the early 1970s, VANISHING POINT feels suspended between optimism and disillusionment. The ideals of the 1960s haven't entirely disappeared, but neither do they seem capable of surviving contact with the real world.
I've always thought of it as a kind of desert myth. Not a realistic portrait of America but a legend told through engines, asphalt, dust, and speed. Every generation seems to discover it for themselves and immediately starts recommending it to everyone they know.
Paired with THELMA & LOUISE this Friday, it forms one half of a fascinating conversation about freedom, escape, and what happens when people decide they no longer want to play by society's rules.
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
