Perfect Partner is a road movie directed by Sonic Youth founder Kim Gordon in collaboration with renowned video artist Tony Oursler and acclaimed filmmaker Phil Morrison. In a response to America’s enchantment with car culture, this surreal psychodrama starring Michael Pitt (The Dreamers, Last Days) unfolds to a thundering free rock live soundtrack. The sound world of Perfect Partner is textural improvised music breaking into occasional songs that interact with the narrative of the film. For the series of accompanied live performances, Gordon was joined on stage by producer and composer Jim O’Rourke, percussionist Tim Barnes, laptop virtuoso Ikue Mori and turntablist DJ Olive presenting an invigorating trip through live music, video and projection. Gordon and Oursler’s shared fascination with the dream lifestyle promised by car manufacturers, and the aspirational language of car advert copy (selling cars as our ‘perfect partner’), provided the inspiration for this project. Based around a dialogue mixed with car advertising copy, the lo-fi aesthetics of the film provide a setting to the music and action on stage, back projected onto a large screen. The film stars Michael Pitt, fresh from his lead role as Kurt Cobain in Gus Van Sant’s film Last Days.