Summer Tour (2026)

This dreamy love letter to Deadheads follows a group of young fans attending every show of Dead & Company's 2023 Goodbye Tour. Director Mischa Richter (himself a Deadhead) captures events with intimate naturalism, lingering on parking-lot twirls, improvised economies, and the strange grace of communal life on the move. He never shows Dead & Company performing. No backstage access, no band interviews. Instead, his cameras spotlight the fans, particularly Jerry and Annie--young, barefoot, gloriously unbothered as they wander the country in a questionable camper van. Neither was alive when Jerry Garcia walked the earth, yet both have organized their lives around this music with an intensity that demands respect rather than mockery. They are totally serious and smarter than you think. One senses they'll eventually run some small enterprise together (artisanal mushrooms, perhaps?). But not yet. Right now, the road is calling. Co-produced by actress Chloë Sevigny (who once followed the Dead with director Richter), Summer Tour does something rare and difficult: it takes easy targets and makes them fully, stubbornly human. It's the film the Deadhead demographic deserves--sharp, tender, and utterly unwilling to apologize for its subjects. Looking for a miracle? Get on the bus.