Pavements + Recorded Q&A

BBFC RatingPavements + Recorded Q&A

Showing: 16 July 2025 until 17 July 2025

Show Times

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Wed 16 Jul 2025
Thu 17 Jul 2025

Certificate15
Year2025
GenreDocumentary
Director(s)Alex Ross Perry
Writer(s)Alex Ross Perry
LanguageEnglish
CountryUSA
Running Time2HR 8MINS
Season Main Programme

From Alex Ross Perry, the acclaimed director of Her Smell and Listen Up Philip and a distinctive voice in post-mumblecore cinema, comes an irreverent, genre-bending portrait of the iconic '90s indie rock band Pavement.

Premiering at the 2024 Venice Film Festival, Pavements blends authentic archival footage, contemporary documentary moments, an ironic jukebox musical, a satirical Hollywood biopic, and playful mockumentary sequences, brilliantly collapsing the boundaries between reality and fiction.

As Pavement prepare for their sold-out 2022 reunion tour, the film captures surreal behind-the-scenes preparations for a musical adaptation of their songs, a museum dedicated entirely to the band's legacy, and a knowingly clichéd Hollywood biopic starring Joe Keery as frontman Stephen Malkmus.

Interwoven with genuine archival footage and featuring the band members themselves alongside a cast of actors and comedians, Pavements humorously examines fan obsession, myth-making, and the cultural mechanics behind fame.

Pavements will be followed by a pre-recorded Q&A with Director Alex Ross Perry.


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