Michael Pitt and Kim Gordon (featured here in Last Days) will take Manhattan--just not this time (Photo: Picturehouse)

This is the kind of thing that makes me suffocate with jealousy, especially living in NYC: A new film collaboration between Junebug director Phil Morrison, Sonic Youth legend Kim Gordon, video artist Tony Oursler and actor Michael Pitt (among others) is all set for an October premiere—in London.

The project, called Perfect Partner (Everything You Ever Wanted in a Car), will open Oct. 2 at the Barbican Centre before taking off on a tour of the UK and Europe. According to the Pitt fan site Beautifully Scarred, the film is "a response to America's enchantment with car culture." Or as its commissioner, Electra Productions, explains:

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 hugely inventive project. What followed was the desire to work with a filmmaker to create a backdrop road movie that would lead the narrative of an 80-minute performance. … The resulting film tells a story of a young man in search of his mother. On his travels he falls in love with a woman who agrees to help him. Together they take a test drive which becomes a road trip and develops into a faux-Godardian adventure. 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.

So Gordon will rock with Sonic Youth bandmate Jim O'Rourke and a few others while Pitt gets his ad-copy on up on the big screen. And how exactly did this skip New York? I mean, isn't everything "faux-Godardian" is supposed to pass through here first? I suppose London probably wants the 2012 Olympics too, right? Oh wait.