Pavement Film Starring Tim Heidecker, Jason Schwartzman & More To Premiere at Venice Film Festival

A Pavement hybrid documentary/biopic is set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival, which runs August 28 through September 7. Pavements stars the band members — Stephen Malkmus, Spiral Stairs, Mark Ibold, Steve West and Bob Nastanovich along with Tim Heidecker, Jason Schwartzman, Joe Keery and more.

Alex Ross Perry directed Pavements and also helmed the musical based on the band’s songs, Slanted! Enchanted! A Pavement Musical. As Pitchfork pointed out, the Pavements film — first announced in a 2022 feature in the New Yorker — inspired the musical. In the article, Alex Ross Perry noted that he wanted to write something “legitimate, ridiculous, real, fake, idiotic, cliché, illogical.”

“You take the Todd Haynes Bob Dylan movie, the Scorsese documentary, the Pennebaker documentary, and the movie Dylan himself directed that everyone hates [Renaldo and Clara], and put them all in a blender,” Perry added in describing Pavements.

Pavement’s label Matador further detailed the new film.

Pavements, a prismatic, narrative, scripted, documentary, musical, metatextual hybrid, is an examination of the iconic 90s indie band Pavement.

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.

Pavement has upcoming festival performances at Bumbershoot and Riot Fest. Check them out below.