Pavements

“A Surrealist Love Letter To The ’90s Indie Titans.” – Matthew Turner, NME (UK)

Pavement band members Mark Ibold & Scott “Spiral Stairs“ Kannberg IN PERSON after the 5/15 show!

Co-Presented by Amoeba Music

An examination of the iconic 90s indie band, “Pavements” appears to be just another music documentary, until it doesn’t.  A prismatic, narrative, scripted, documentary, musical, metatextual hybrid, the film intimately shows 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.

Written & directed by Alex Ross Perry. Produced & edited by Robert Greene. Starring as themselves, Stephen Malkmus. Scott “Spiral Stairs” Kannbera. Mark Ibold, Steve West, & Bob Nastanovich. Also starring Joe Keery, Jason Schwartzman, Nat Wolff, Fred Hechinger, Logan Miller, Griffin Newman, Tim Heidecker, Michael Esper, Zoe Lister-Jones and Kathryn Gallagher.

“The band’s legendary status, quickly achieved in the early ’90s indie underground, has always felt somewhat at odds with the sense of shaggy self-effacement that their critics often mistook for a conscious lack of effort. Wisely anticipating that the traditional rock-doc format would be a poor fit for such a group, Perry has crafted a far less easily classifiable tribute…Perry’s humorously Cubist portrait finds a fitting balance between reverence and mischievousness.” – Brad Hanford, Slant Magazine