Joe Swanberg
Born: 1981-08-31 in Detroit, Michigan, USA
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2026
- The Sun Never Sets ... (Director)
- Castration Movie Expansion Pack i. You're Weird, But I Love You! ... (Thanks)
- Monkey’s Magic Merry Go Round ... (Producer)
- Castration Movie Chapter iii. Junior Ghosts—Premorphic Drift; a fragmentary passage ... (Thanks)
- Loafers as Cameron's Boss
2025
- Invention as John
- Kenneled ... (Producer)
- Chasing the Party as Staten
2024
- Castration Movie Anthology i. Traps ... (Thanks)
- PRISMA as Joe
- The Becomers ... (Producer)
- Invader as Invader
- Coven of the Black Cube as Officer Lindley
2023
- Blackout as Stuart
2022
- Offseason as George Darrow
- Good Guy with a Gun as Tom Greenwood
2020
- The Rental ... (Producer)
- Build the Wall ... (Director)
2019
- Depraved ... (Executive Producer)
- Sword of Trust ... (Executive Producer)
- 90 Years of the Music Box Theatre as Self
- Holy Trinity ... (Executive Producer)
- Nobody Likes You as Much as I Do as Pauly
2018
- Golden Exits ... (Executive Producer)
- Madeline's Madeline ... (Executive Producer)
2017
- Win It All ... (Director)
- Person to Person ... (Executive Producer)
- Flames as Joe Swanberg
2016
- Easy ... (Director)
- Joshy as Aaron
- Uncle Kent 2 as Joe
- Little Sister ... (Executive Producer)
- Regional Bloodshed as self
2015
- Digging for Fire ... (Director)
- The Show About the Show
- Queen of Earth ... (Producer)
- Bloomin Mud Shuffle as Brock
- Lace Crater as Dean
- There as Toth
2014
- Looking ... (Director)
- The Sacrament as Jake
- Listen Up Philip ... (Thanks)
- Happy Christmas as Jeff
- Proxy as Patrick Michaels
- Thou Wast Mild and Lovely as Akin
2013
- You're Next as Drake Davison
- Drinking Buddies as Angry Car Guy
- 24 Exposures as Literary Agent
- White Reindeer as George
- Privacy Settings ... (Director)
- Detonator as Sid
- All the Light in the Sky ... (Director)
- The Kings of Yorktown as Bartender
2012
- V/H/S as Sam (segment "Second Honeymoon")
- Marriage Material
- Stray Bullets ... (Director)
- Be Good as Joe
- Cats and Trees as Al
- Empire Builder as The Husband
- Stage Brother as Self
2011
- Autoerotic
- Art History as Sam
- The Zone as Director
- Uncle Kent as Joe
- Silver Bullets as Ethan
- Caitlin Plays Herself as Joe
- What Fun We Were Having: 4 Stories About Date Rape
2010
- A Horrible Way to Die as Kevin
- Blackmail Boys
- Open Five ... (Director of Photography)
- Audrey the Trainwreck as Jeremy Roth
- Everyone Says I Look Just Like Her as Brandon
2009
- Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever as Hazmat Team
- You Wont Miss Me
- Birthday Suit
- Alexander the Last ... (Director)
- The Mountain, the River and the Road
- One Shot ... (Director)
2008
- Nights and Weekends as James
- Ginger Sand ... (Director of Photography)
- Paintbrush
- Present Company as Archibald King
- Swedish Blueballs ... (Director)
2007
- In Search of a Midnight Kiss ... (Thanks)
- Hannah Takes the Stairs ... (Director of Photography)
- Quiet City as Adam
- Grammy's as Clarence
- Hohokam as The Jeffery
- The Timebox Twins as Boy
2006
- Young American Bodies as Ben
- LOL as Tim
- Thanks for the Add! ... (Cinematography)
2005
- Kissing on the Mouth as Patrick
- Hissy Fits ... (Director)
2003
- Mikey ... (Director)
2001
- Bless Me Father as Father Sexy