PAVILION
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