Three years ago, Pavement approached the director Alex Ross Perry about collaborating on a movie. Stephen Malkmus wasn’t interested in hiring a documentary filmmaker—he wanted a screenwriter, but not a screenplay. “No one knew what that meant,” Perry said.
Alex Ross Perry, the filmmaker, was pacing the stage of the Sheen Center, on Bleecker Street, the other day, flanked by Broadway actors. He was directing a workshop of “Slanted! Enchanted!: A Pavement Musical,” about the Stockton slacker-rock quintet. Perry created the piece to feature in a screwball movie about the band which he is also directing, and which he has described variously as “a semiotic experiment” and “like throwing spaghetti at the wall.
“This is not a joke,” Perry said, and asked the composer Dabney Morris to play the Guns N’ Roses track.On the set, which was bedecked in Pavement totems , the cast and crew listened as Rose’s guttural screeching rattled the proscenium. Someone interrupted to mention a burning smell onstage. “That’s just dust on the lights,” a production designer yelled from the mezzanine.
“No one knows what they’re doing,” Perry, who is thirty-eight, said. He doesn’t play an instrument, and he had just learned the difference between upstage and downstage the previous week. The closest thing to a musical that he’d directed was his last film, “Her Smell,” which starred Elisabeth Moss as a self-destructive musician.
Perry resolved to approach the impossible assignment from impossible angles: “Legitimate, ridiculous, real, fake, idiotic, cliché, illogical,” he said, and offered a Bob Dylan analogy. “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.
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