PAVEMENTS Trailer: Alex Ross Perry Pays Tribute To Iconic Indie Band in Genre-Defying Feature
Half a decade after his last feature directorial venture Her Smell, former HtN contributor Alex Ross Perry is back with a new experimental undertaking. Pavements is a tribute to the iconic indie rock band Pavement, led by frontman Stephen Malkmus and guitarist Scott Kannberg, along with Bob Nastanovich, Mark Ibold, and Steve West, who replaced Gary Young on drums after their first album. In this unique portrait, Perry blends documentary footage, scripted scenes, and a musical stage play featuring songs from the band’s discography. The fictional biopic within the film, Range Life, stars Joe Keery as Stephen Malkmus, alongside Perry regular Jason Schwartzman, Fred Hechinger, Nat Wolff, Tim Heidecker, Logan Miller, and Griffin Newman.
The film had its world premiere at last year’s Venice Film Festival in the Horizons sections before screening at NYFF. Utopia will release it stateside on May 2 at the Film Forum in New York and May 9 in L.A., before opening nationwide on June 6.
Here’s the official synopsis:
Pavements is a movie about Pavement the band—among other things. The latest film from acclaimed director Alex Ross Perry (Her Smell) is a documentary that may or may not be entirely true, may or may not be totally sincere, and may or may not be more about the idea of the band—or any band—than a history of the short-lived, passionately loved, commercially marginal Nineties American alternative group Pavement. This unconventional film about a highly unconventional band incorporates a stage musical, rock biopic, gallery exhibition, archival footage, and contemporary observational footage to create a film as irreducible, uncharacterizable, and entertaining as the band and its music. Anchored by Pavement’s slacker-sage-sphinx, Stephen Malkmus, the film features performances by Joe Keery, Jason Schwartzman, Tim Heidecker, Kathryn Gallagher, Michael Esper, and Zoe Lister-Jones, and editing by nonfiction innovator Robert Greene (Procession).
Check out the official trailer and poster below.
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