‘Her Smell’ Director Alex Ross Perry Talks Nonfiction Projects About Video Stores, Indie Rock Band Pavement: ‘They Are Examinations of the Unexamined Era’
variety.comMarta Balaga “Her Smell” director Alex Ross Perry is developing two nonfiction projects, including the as-yet-untitled doc about video stores. “I can’t speak for everybody but yeah, I miss them,” he tells Variety at Poland’s American Film Festival, where he also picked the Indie Star Award and treated the audience to work-in-progress footage. “I’m trying to tell this story while it’s still within our grasp.
You only have so much time when something is both a present tense memory for one half of your audience and a completely new experience for another.
In another decade, everything I’m talking about will be ancient history.” Perry, who has been working on the project for 10 years, is also putting finishing touches on “Slanted!
Enchanted!: A Pavement Musical” about an indie rock band. “I think both this video store movie and the Pavement movie are examinations of the unexamined era,” he says. “It was something I was thinking about when I made ‘Her Smell.’ We haven’t started narrativizing the 90s yet.
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