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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.
Most Popular Joe Swanberg Trailers
Total trailers found: 92
27 July 2011
An anthology film consisting of four segments, entitled "Hot Boys," "The Sleep Creep," "The Meat Man," and "Silver Bullets," each of which obliquely dramatizes an incident of sexual assault.
25 September 2009
Jeff, a wannabe writer flailing at his career, his romantic relationships and any effort to be a responsible adult, takes a road trip to flee his mundane life.
05 March 2012
Jenny's life has changed significantly since she had a baby. her days of food activism and urban anthropology have been replaced by diapers and playtime at the park.
12 January 2012
Emily and Andrew, a young couple living in Memphis, agree to babysit their friend’s 6-month-old for a day.
01 February 2012
A short film by Joe Swanberg included on the DVD of Silver Bullets. "footage from the first month og
30 September 2009
A spoof behind-the-scenes look at Joe Swanberg's (non-existent) new film, Birthday Suit, about a young couple's "on again, off again" sexual relationship.
16 March 2011
A mysterious visitor spends the night at an apartment belonging to a young engaged couple and their friend.
01 January 2015
A disgruntled veteran unable to adjust back into society justifies domestic terrorism by interpreting his actions with alien invasion.
25 July 2014
After a breakup with her boyfriend, a young woman moves in with her older brother, his wife, and their 2-year-old son.
10 September 2015
Opting to sleep in the allegedly-haunted guest house while spending a weekend in the Hamptons with friends, Ruth, a lonely young woman in her mid-twenties who's had too much to drink, strikes up a conversation that leads to a sexual encounter with Michael, a burlap-draped ghost that casually appears before her.
15 March 2024
A young woman arrives in the Chicago suburbs and begins to suspect that something terrible has happened to her missing cousin, but soon realizes that her greatest fears don’t even begin to scratch the surface.
22 August 2013
When the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of their victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.
12 August 2016
After his engagement ends badly, Josh decides to take advantage of his bachelor-party plans in Ojai, California, with the few friends still willing to join him.
23 July 2020
Two couples on an oceanside getaway grow suspicious that the host of their seemingly perfect rental house may be spying on them.
06 December 2013
After an unexpected tragedy, Suzanne searches for the true meaning of Christmas during one sad, strange December in suburban Virginia.
28 July 2012
When a group of misfits is hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire one rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they had bargained for.
23 September 2011
Tension mounts between a director and his lead actress on the set of a sexually explicit low-budget film.
22 July 2011
Autoerotic follows four interconnected Chicago couples as they explore the boundaries of self-pleasure and sexual exploration.
01 October 2025
In the aftermath of a conspiracy-minded father’s sudden death, his daughter inherits his patent for an experimental healing device.
07 August 2019
Nominated for two Chicago/Midwest Emmy awards including Outstanding Historical Documentary and Outstanding Off-Camera Directing, "90 Years of the Music Box Theatre" depicts filmmakers Werner Herzog, Lana Wachowski, Michael Shannon, Joe Swanberg, and more as they celebrate a 90-year-old cinema institution in Chicago, IL.
13 March 2006
The relationships of three men are examined through their use of technology.
11 April 2015
Middle-aged Lonnie hasn't done much since he graduated high school. His only shot at greatness is to take his relationship to the next level.
09 February 2018
An intersectional narrative of two families in Brooklyn and the unraveling of unspoken unhappiness that occurs when a young foreign girl spending time abroad upsets the balance on both sides.
29 August 2007
Jamie is 21. She's from Atlanta. She's come to Brooklyn to visit her friend Samantha, but she can't find her.
16 January 2009
A kaleidoscopic film portrait of Shelly Brown, a twenty-three year-old alienated urban misfit recently released from a psychiatric hospital.
23 August 2013
Weekend trips, office parties, late night conversations, drinking on the job, marriage pressure, biological clocks, holding eye contact a second too long… you know what makes the line between “friends” and “more than friends” really blurry? Beer.
01 May 2014
Two journalists set out to document their friend's journey to reunite with his estranged sister. They track her to an undisclosed location where they are welcomed into the remote world of "Eden Parish," a self-sustained rural utopia composed of nearly two hundred members and overseen by a mysterious leader known only as "Father.
12 March 2007
Two brothers have a really bad time on a fishing trip until a stranger makes them a bizarre but lucrative offer.
01 January 2005
Guy gets angry at internet. Meets girl in the shops.
11 August 2009
A high school prom faces a deadly threat: a flesh-eating virus that spreads via a popular brand of bottled water.
22 September 2012
A family takes a journey into the world of adult entertainment.
21 August 2015
Tim and Lee are married with a young child. The chance to stay at a fancy home in the Hollywood Hills is complicated by Tim's discovery of a bone and a rusty old gun in the yard.
30 April 2017
A real romance filmed over five years. Josephine and Zefrey simmer in the white hot apocalypse of first love until the throw of a dart finds them on a spontaneous trip to the Maldives and cracks open the question -- is their love true or just a performance?
07 February 2014
The arrival of a handsome new farmhand threatens the balance between a farmer and his daughter.
02 December 2011
Caitlin, a young Chicago performance artist, struggles to create work that is both personal and political.
06 October 2016
After returning to her childhood home, young nun Colleen finds her old room exactly how she left it: painted black and covered in goth and metal posters.
01 September 2010
After moving to Chicago for art school, Sam begins turning tricks to help pay the bills. His longtime, long-distance boyfriend Aaron can't stand to be apart and finally joins him, determined to find enough work so that Sam can give up having sex for money.
22 November 2025
Walker, a gig worker and artist, is drowning in the city's instability. Desperate for agency and financial relief to save his relationship with his ambitious girlfriend, Kylie, he accepts a lucrative but bizarre dog-walking job.
28 July 2017
Follows a variety of New York characters as they navigate personal relationships and unexpected problems over the course of one day.
12 July 2024
A mysterious coven helps unhappy wives murder their husbands. A deadbeat stoner turns a pizzeria into a video rental headshop, and a lost soul falls in love with a serial killer, in this queer romance cursed by black magic and the occult!
11 March 2022
Upon receiving a mysterious letter that her mother's grave has been vandalized, Marie travels to the desolate island town where she's buried.
12 July 2019
When Cynthia and Mary show up to collect Cynthia's inheritance from her deceased grandfather, the only item she's received is an antique sword that he believed to be proof that the South won the Civil War.
11 March 2017
A gambling addict faces a conflict when entrusted with keeping a bunch of money that isn't his.
13 March 2026
Wendy’s life is thrown into chaos when her boyfriend, Jack, who is older and divorced with children, insists they take space to evaluate the relationship.
23 February 2013
A peeping Tom (Frank V. Ross) stumbles into a mutually beneficial relationship with an exhibitionist.
26 June 2008
Made up entirely of stills, 'Paintbrush' presents portraits of ten users of a fictitious online social networking website.
27 April 2007
Broke and alone on New Year's Eve, Wilson just wants to spend the rest of a very bad year in bed. But, when his best friend convinces him to post a personal ad, he meets a woman bent on finding the right guy to be with at midnight.
18 April 2014
While walking home from her latest OB appointment, a very pregnant Esther Woodhouse is brutally attacked and disfigured by a hooded assailant.
29 September 2023
Small town artist Charley is a tortured man whose drinking binges blur with his sneaking suspicion that he might be a werewolf.
17 March 2010
The story of two people caught in the routines of work and circles of friends. The days begin with an alarm and end with the fading sound of a television.
17 October 2014
Anger rages in Philip as he awaits the publication of his second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating relationship with his photographer girlfriend Ashley, and his own indifference to promoting the novel.
22 August 2008
David hosts a potential new fling Brandi, and a definite old friend Eric on the same weekend. A coincidence in scheduling that leads to personality conflict.
01 January 2003
A snapshot of a day in the life of a few young men passing the hours on their skateboards and wasting time out in the garage.
25 October 2016
Filmmakers Joe Swanberg and Spencer Parsons discuss the Midwestern roots and work ethic of Lewis' output and how The Gore Gore Girls represents the shift into transgressive '70s cinema that would dominate the American horror landscape.
01 March 2008
Leading very separate lives, Christy and her boyfriend Buddy live together in her parent's basement with their baby Mikey.
12 March 2009
A single-shot short produced by Joe Swanberg for the Northwest Film Forum.
01 May 2006
A woman borrows a man's cell phone and makes a call.
06 April 2019
An American couple argues about the safety of a French girl after a night out.
10 August 2018
Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur.
14 May 2026
After a mysterious bout of amnesia, a beloved children’s television host struggles to piece together his fractured memories, only to find his once-cheerful puppet co-stars behaving with sinister intent.
