Limited Engagement: Just Four Shows! Exclusive Early Screenings!

Join us for a post-screening Q&A moderated by Rob Levy with Producer Robert Greene after the 8:00 pm screening on Thursday, June 5!

Catch a live performance by Space Quaker at 7:30 PM before the June 5 show!

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.

“Perry’s film, one of his most accomplished and complete-feeling to date, exists in both a past and conditional tense. It gives a brilliant précis of one of indie music’s most influential artists: in its most conventional passages, it’s a visual and critical biography identifying the key features of their suburban and middle-American backgrounds, their initiation into “alt” culture and the art life as students, and their sometimes loving, often tentative rapport with the ‘90s’ big-money music industry. But after establishing this baseline of reality, Perry and his mock-doc-making, fake-it-so-real editor Robert Greene (who seems a larger artistic collaborator here) devise highly inventive fictional segments that aren’t necessarily plausible but have a persuasive, satirical feel a few semitones off-pitch from reality.” —David Katz, The Film Stage

“There are meta-movies, and then there’s Alex Ross Perry’s PAVEMENTS… For a heady and hyperliterate group like Pavement, only a multi-pronged metafictional approach could do them justice.” —Marshall Shaffer, The Playlist

“Pavement might not have really been the most important band ever, but PAVEMENTS is an important documentary. It’s a reminder that the fourth (and fifth and sixth) wall can be smashed, that the rock doc can be reinvented. And that when the message is meta for meta’s sake, why not make the medium that way, too?” —Adam Solomons, IndieWire