Joe Swanberg
- Directing
- August 31, 1981 · Detroit, Michigan, USA
Biography
Joe Swanberg (born August 31, 1981) is an American independent film director, producer, writer, and actor. Known for micro-budget films which make extensive use of improvisation, Swanberg is considered a major figure in the mumblecore film movement. His films often focus on relationships, sex, technology, and the filmmaking process, and include V/H/S (2012), Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007), Win It All (2017), Digging For Fire (2015), and Nights and Weekends (2008), the last of which was co-directed by Academy Award nominee Greta Gerwig.
Known for
Filmography
- The Sun Never Sets · Keith, Director
- Castration Movie Chapter iii.ii Junior Ghosts—Premorphic Drift; a fragmentary passage · Thanks
- Yellow Eyes · Producer
- Strange Egg · Executive producer
- Thingy · Producer
- The Roast of Caveh Zahedi · Self
- Monkey’s Magic Merry Go Round · Producer
- Castration Movie Expansion Pack i. You're Weird, But I Love You! · Thanks
- Loafers · Cameron's Boss
- Kenneled · Producer
- Invention · John
- Castration Movie Anthology II. The Best of Both Worlds · Thanks
- Chasing the Party · Staten
- Prisma · Joe
- Castration Movie Anthology I. Traps · Thanks
- The Becomers · Producer
- Coven of the Black Cube · Officer Lindley
- Invader · Invader, Producer
- Blackout · Stuart
- Good Guy with a Gun · Tom Greenwood
- Offseason · George Darrow
- Build the Wall · Director, Screenplay
- The Rental · Producer, Screenplay
- Depraved · Executive producer
- 90 Years of the Music Box Theatre · Self
- Holy Trinity · Executive producer
- Sword of Trust · Executive producer
- Nobody Likes You as Much as I Do · Pauly
- Madeline's Madeline · Executive producer
- Golden Exits · Executive producer
- Person to Person · Executive producer
- Flames · Joe Swanberg
- Win It All · Director, Editing
- The Show About Sundance · Self
- Regional Bloodshed · Self
- Little Sister · Executive producer
- Easy · Director, Writer
- Uncle Kent 2 · Joe
- Joshy · Aaron
- The Show About the Show
- Lace Crater · Dean
- Digging for Fire · Director, Writer
- Bloomin Mud Shuffle · Brock, Producer
- Queen of Earth · Producer
- There · Toth
- Listen Up Philip · Thanks
- Happy Christmas · Jeff, Director
- The Sacrament · Jake
- Proxy · Patrick Michaels
- Thou Wast Mild and Lovely · Akin
- Looking · Director
- All the Light in the Sky · Director, Writer
- White Reindeer · George
- Drinking Buddies · Angry Car Guy, Director
- You're Next · Drake Davison
- 24 Exposures · Literary Agent, Director
- The Kings of Yorktown · Bartender
- Detonator · Sid
- The Unspeakable Act · Thanks
- Privacy Settings · Director
- Stage Brother · Self
- V/H/S · Sam (segment "Second Honeymoon"), Director
- Empire Builder · The Husband
- Stray Bullets · Director, Screenplay
- Marriage Material · Director, Producer
- Cats and Trees · Al
- Be Good · Joe
- Caitlin Plays Herself · Joe, Director
- Silver Bullets · Ethan, Director
- Art History · Sam, Director
- What Fun We Were Having: 4 Stories About Date Rape · Producer
- Autoerotic · Director, Writer
- The Zone · Director, Writer
- Uncle Kent · Joe, Director
- Open Five · Cinematography
- A Horrible Way to Die · Kevin
- Blackmail Boys · Andrew Kenneth Tucker, Director
- Everyone Says I Look Just Like Her · Brandon
- Audrey the Trainwreck · Jeremy Roth
- Wrecked · Director