Official Trailer for Rock Band Doc 'Pavements' from Alex Ross Perry

"We were big on MTV!" Utopia has revealed an official trailer for the film Pavements, the latest creation from NYC indie filmmaker Alex Ross Perry. This is sort of a documentary, or not, more of a mockumentary, but it's also kind of real, and kind of a fictional film. Does this band actually exist? Is this doc about their return or about them not being a real band? Who knows? Pavements is a doc film about the American indie band Pavement, which combines scripts with images of the band & a musical mise-en-scene composed of songs from their discography. It's a prismatic, narrative, scripted, musical, metatextual hybrid. Showing the band preparing for their sold-out 2022 reunion tour while tracking the preparations for a musical based on their songs, a museum about their history, and a big-budget Hollywood biopic. Anchored by Pavement's slacker-sage-sphinx, Stephen Malkmus, the film features actors Joe Keery, Jason Schwartzman, Tim Heidecker, Kathryn Gallagher, Michael Esper, Nat Wolff, and Zoe Lister-Jones, with editing by nonfiction innovator Robert Greene (Procession). I first saw this film in Venice last year and pretty much hated it - a very unfunny waste of time. But others may find more to enjoy watching […]

Mar 25, 2025 - 15:01

Official Trailer for Rock Band Doc 'Pavements' from Alex Ross Perry

"We were big on MTV!" Utopia has revealed an official trailer for the film Pavements, the latest creation from NYC indie filmmaker Alex Ross Perry. This is sort of a documentary, or not, more of a mockumentary, but it's also kind of real, and kind of a fictional film. Does this band actually exist? Is this doc about their return or about them not being a real band? Who knows? Pavements is a doc film about the American indie band Pavement, which combines scripts with images of the band & a musical mise-en-scene composed of songs from their discography. It's a prismatic, narrative, scripted, musical, metatextual hybrid. Showing the band preparing for their sold-out 2022 reunion tour while tracking the preparations for a musical based on their songs, a museum about their history, and a big-budget Hollywood biopic. Anchored by Pavement's slacker-sage-sphinx, Stephen Malkmus, the film features actors Joe Keery, Jason Schwartzman, Tim Heidecker, Kathryn Gallagher, Michael Esper, Nat Wolff, and Zoe Lister-Jones, with editing by nonfiction innovator Robert Greene (Procession). I first saw this film in Venice last year and pretty much hated it - a very unfunny waste of time. But others may find more to enjoy watching this band mess around. // Continue Reading ›