“Pavements”, interview with the director Alex Ross Perry

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“Pavements“, Alex Ross Perry‘s film dedicated to the American 90s indie band Pavement, is not a documentary, just as it is not a biopic or a tribute. It is four films together, in a hyper-homage to a band that, paradoxically, got that same tributes invented in the film, also in reality.

The need for a film about the band but not the usual film

Alex Ross Perry for “Pavements” started from the fact that for all bands of a certain level and success there comes a time of celebration into a film: the market demands it, commercial logic demands it and the fans also demand it and expect it. For Pavement too, the time had come, but they didn’t want a classical structure, to stand in front of the camera and tell their story. So we invented a new format of musical storytelling.

Reality overcame our creativity

for “Pavements“Alex Ross Perry and the band had invented a parallel world where success was planetary, they were idolised and celebrate in biopics, museums and endless tours. When by 2022 all this started to happen for real, the grotesque part of the film was overtaken by reality: the band had become bigger and more famous than anyone could have imagined.

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