How to commemorate the iconic nineties band Pavement? With a multi-layered meta-documentary like this. In Pavements, archive footage overlaps with recordings of a musical, a parody, a biopic, and a pop-up museum — until the band is almost indistinguishable from the legend. The nineties band Pavement was the 'most influential and best band in the world,' claims director Alex Ross Perry. Hence, he directed Pavements, a fragmented mix of docu and fiction that is unlike any other film about a rock group, exactly what the quirky rock songs of the American band deserved. Pavement was one of the most notable American indie bands in the nineties. For a few years now, the quintet around Stephen Malkmus is back together. Their first creative project is not a new record, but this meta film by director Alex Ross Perry. And no, the plural Pavements is not a typo, as Perry looks at the band in different ways. Sometimes you don't know where to look first - split screens! - but no worries: it's a passionate ode to, quote Perry, the best and most influential band in the world. Young music lovers will undoubtedly recognize Joe Keery (the Stranger Things actor who makes music as Djo and plays a young Stephen Malkmus here) and Nat Wolff (of The Naked Brothers Band) as enthusiastic band members.