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Pavements

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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

Director
Cast

Joe Keery, Jason Schwartzman, Nat Wolff, Fred Hechinger, Logan Miller, Griffin Newman

Credits
Country of Origin

USA

Year

2024

Language

English

18+
128 min
Art, Music & Photography Experimental & Avant Garde
Alldayeveryday, Pulse Films, Matador Records, Field Recordings, Ww7 Entertainment

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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 headshot

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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