PTA's Cameron Winter Concert Film Premieres at NYFF — SkimNews
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- "Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall" premiered at the New York Film Festival, a 75-minute film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson that captures Winter's solo performance at Carnegie Hall on Dec. 11, 2025.
- Paul Thomas Anderson frames the performance from multiple angles in an orange-yellow, candlelit glow, shooting the four balconies of Carnegie Hall and pulling viewers into Winter's "emotional orbit" — marking his second music-performance film after 2015's "Junun."
- Cameron Winter, frontman of indie band Geese, performs at a Steinway grand with his back largely to the audience, running through songs including "It All Fell in the River," "If You Turn Back Now," "$0," and "Take It With You."
- The reviewer compares Winter's baritone — which swings between low and high registers with a "suspended quaver" — to Bob Dylan, Thom Yorke, Tom Waits "minus the gravel," early Springsteen, and John Cale's 1992 album "Fragments of a Rainy Season."
- Winter's 2024 solo record "Heavy Metal" is described as more compelling than his work with Geese, which the reviewer calls "overpraised"; the film is framed as a showcase for the "meditative soul inside the noise rocker."
Why it matters: By giving a solo concert film a New York Film Festival premiere, the festival positions Cameron Winter as more than an indie-rock frontman — the film documents the live dimension of his 2024 solo work "Heavy Metal" for an audience that may never see him in a venue like Carnegie Hall. For PTA, the project extends his music-film work after 2015's "Junun" and demonstrates his continued appetite for non-fiction performance cinema beyond feature scripts.
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