Canadian Premiere
Alex Ross Perry’s Pavements, a prismatic, narrative, scripted, documentary, musical, metatextual hybrid, is an examination of the iconic 90s indie band Pavement. The film intimately follows the band preparing for their sold-out 2022 reunion tour while simultaneously tracking the preparations for a musical based on their songs, a museum devoted to their history, and a big-budget Hollywood biopic inspired by their saga as the most important band of a generation.
Rather than just trying to mimic the mastery of the band, Pavements finds exciting new avenues to understand the group befitting their evolution and adaptation over time. It’s refreshingly open to additional permutations… It’s a true testament to their enduring power that their creative genius serves as an inspiration not just to imitate but also to iterate.
Marshall Shaffer, The Playlist
Pavements is a joyous, slyly subversive celebration… The goofy, sweetly cerebral charm of a subtly strange band is captured in this ingenious tribute.
Jonathan Romney, Screen
Joe Keery, Jason Schwartzman, Nat Wolff, Fred Hechinger, Logan Miller, Griffin Newman
USA
2024
English
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Credits & Director
Producer
Craig Butta, Alex Ross Perry, Robert Greene Arrow Kruse, Danny Gabai, Patrick Amory, Gerard Cosloy, Chris Lombardi, Gabe Spierer, Lance Bangs, Peter Kline, Alex Needles
Screenwriter
Alex Ross Perry
Cinematography
Robert Kolodny
Editor
Robert Greene
Production Design
John Arnos
Original Music
Keegan DeWitt, Dabney Morris
Alex Ross Perry
Alex Ross Perry is an NYC-based filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor who has been working on movies of various shapes and sizes for the better part of a decade. He is best known for Listen Up Philip (2014) and Her Smell (2018).
Filmography: Implox (2009); Listen Up Philip (2014); Golden Exits (2017); Her Smell (2018)
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