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PAVEMENTS
PAVEMENTS

• Director: Alex Ross Perry
• USA / 2024 / DCP / Colour / 128’ / English; Turkish s.t.

• Screenplay: Alex Ross Perry, Stephen Malkmus
• Director of Photography: Robert Kolodny
• Editing: Robert Greene
• Music: Keegan DeWitt, Dabney Morris
• Cast: Katılanlar With: Joe Keery, Jason Schwartzman, Nat Wolff, Fred Hechinger, Tim Heidecker, Zoe Lister-Jones
• Producer: Craig Butta, Lance Bangs, Danny Gabai, Robert Greene, Peter Klein
• Production Co.: Alldayeveryday, Pulse Films, Matador Records, Field Recordings, WW7 Entertainment
• World Sales: Utopia Distribution

An examination of the iconic 1990s indie band Pavement appears to be just another music documentary – until it isn’t. A prismatic hybrid of narrative, scripted, documentary, and stage musical forms, 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. Pavements is metatextual in nature – exploring the band’s legacy and the very idea of a band itself, blending fact and fiction, blurring the lines between reality and the mythos surrounding Pavement. ’There has never been a band like Pavement,’ says director Alex Ross Perry, ’and I hope there has never been a film like Pavements.’

* In accordance with Article 7 of the Law No. 5224 amended on 18.01.2019, cinema films that have not been reviewed and classified can only be screened in festivals, special screenings and similar cultural and artistic events with an 18+ age restriction.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.