PAVILION

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Pavilion
Tim Sutton, 2012

Catalog No.: FTF-031
Length: 70 minutes

Tim Sutton’s debut feature, likened to films by Gus Van Sant and Pedro Costa, follows a laconic teenager (Max) who moves from an idyllic lakeside town to his father’s home in arid suburban Arizona. With mesmerizing imagery of hot summer bike rides and cool lake-bound dives, Pavilion captures the ephemerality and reverie of youth and the fragility of adolescent friendships. A haunting score by the Sea and Cake’s Sam Prekop shadows the storyline, echoing its secrets and shouldering its mysteries.

Writ­ten and Directed by Tim Sutton
Executive Pro­duced by Simon Mikhailovich and Russ Brownback
Cin­e­matog­ra­phy by Chris Dapkins
Scored by Sam Prekop 
Star­ring: Max Schaffner, Zach Cali and Cody Hamric

Festivals: SXSW, BAMcinemaFest, Munich Film Festival

PURCHASE

VINYL | DVD


WATCH THE FILM

March 18th and 23rd, 2022
Filmoteca de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain info

PRESS

"Seventy ephemeral minutes. You slip from image to image, pulled along by their beauty."
-Manohla Dargis, The New York Times, Critics Pick 

"Exquisite beginning to end."
-Amy Taubin, Art Forum 

"A tone poem keyed to the unhurried rituals of an American adolescence."
-Steve Dollar, The Wall Street Journal 

"Gorgeously lensed tone poem wistfully evokes childhood summers of riding bikes and swimming in suburban Arizona.”
-Aaron Hillis, The Village Voice

"A ravishingly shot slice of teen-ness."
-Michael Atkinson, Time Out New York

"What personal movies are in the process of becoming."
-Ray Pride, New City Film, Critics Pick 

"A new way of observing youth...suspended in a sort of idle immortality."
- Peter Debruge, Variety

"Conveys a sense of the sacred, experiential NOW."
- Mike Ryan, Hammer to Nail

"Reminiscent of works by Gus Van Sant or even Pedro Costa, Pavilion withholds its narrative secrets but still engages you, leaving a taste of mystery behind."
-Scott Macaulay, Filmmaker Magazine 

"A startlingly perceptive first feature."
-Eric Kohn, Indiewire