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Joseph 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.[2][3][4] His films often focus on relationships, sex, technology, and the filmmaking process, and he is credited with launching the careers of Greta Gerwig. [5]

Joe Swanberg
Swanberg in 2014
Born	Joseph Swanberg (1981-08-31) August 31, 1981 (age 41) Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Occupation	Actor, film director, TV producer, screenwriter
Years active	2005–present
Notable work	Easy (TV series) Drinking Buddies
Spouse	Kris Williams ​ ​ (m. 2007; div. 2019)​ [1]
Children	2
Website	joeswanberg.com

Early life

Swanberg was born in Detroit, Michigan, and was raised in Georgia and Alabama.[6] He graduated from Naperville Central High School in suburban Chicago and attended Southern Illinois University at Carbondale as a film major, earning a bachelor's degree in 2003.[7] As a teenager, he worked at Hollywood Video.[8]

Career

In 2005, Swanberg directed his first feature film, Kissing on the Mouth, for a modest budget. He followed it with LOL (2006), which marked Swanberg's first time working with actress Greta Gerwig. Gerwig and Swanberg collaborated on the director's next two features: Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007), which also starred filmmakers Andrew Bujalski, Ry Russo-Young, and Mark Duplass and marked Swanberg's first collaboration with animator and actor Kent Osborne; and Nights and Weekends (2008), on which Gerwig shared a directing credit. Swanberg's next feature, Alexander the Last, was produced by Noah Baumbach, who would later cast Gerwig opposite Ben Stiller in his 2010 film Greenberg.

After spending all of 2009 working on Silver Bullets, Swanberg finished seven features in 2010: Uncle Kent, Caitlin Plays Herself, The Zone, Art History, Silver Bullets, Privacy Setting and Autoerotic (co-directed with horror filmmaker Adam Wingard). Uncle Kent premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2011 and Silver Bullets and Art History premiered at the Berlinale in February. The rest of the 2010 films premiered theatrically in 2011 after screenings at film festivals. Four of these were later included in Joe Swanberg: Collected Films 2011, a DVD boxed set from the music and video label Factory 25.[9]

In 2012 Swanberg wrote and directed the film Drinking Buddies, starring Olivia Wilde, Jake M. Johnson, Anna Kendrick and Ron Livingston. The film was produced by Alicia Van Couvering and Andrea Roa and shot by Beasts of the Southern Wild cinematographer Ben Richardson. The film was acquired by Magnolia Pictures shortly after its SXSW premiere.

The following year Swanberg shot Happy Christmas, starring himself, Melanie Lynskey, Lena Dunham, and Anna Kendrick from Drinking Buddies. This was the first of his films to be shot on 16mm film, rather than digital.[10] The film premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.

His next film as director was Digging for Fire,[10] which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and stars Jake Johnson.[11] The film was released on August 21, 2015 by The Orchard.[12]

Swanberg wrote, directed, and produced Easy, an anthology series for Netflix. The series premiered in 2016 and ran for three seasons ending in 2019. Easy featured many of Swanberg's frequent collaborators from his films including Jake Johnson, Joe Lo Truglio, and Nicky Excitement.

In 2017, Swanberg and Jake Johnson co-wrote Win It All. Johnson stars alongside Aislinn Derbez, Joe Lo Truglio and Keegan-Michael Key. The film had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 11, 2017. It was released on April 7, 2017, by Netflix.

Swanberg is a noted proponent of Internet-based distribution for independent films and has made his 2011 feature, Marriage Material, available for free on his Vimeo page.[13] He also released his 2020 feature, Build the Wall, starring Kent Osborne and Jane Adams, on his Vimeo page.[14][15]

In 2021, Swanberg opened Analog Pizza and Video Store, a VHS video rental shop in the back room of Borelli's Pizzeria in Chicago.[8]

Influences

He cites Elaine May, Paul Mazursky, Lars von Trier,[3] Marco Ferreri,[3] and Eric Rohmer as influences on his work.[3]

Filmography

Film

Year	Film	Director	Writer	Producer	Editor	Cinematographer	Notes
2005	Kissing on the Mouth	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
2006	LOL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
2007	Hannah Takes the Stairs	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
2008	Nights and Weekends	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Co-directed with Greta Gerwig
2009	Alexander the Last	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
2010	11/4/08	No	No	No	No	Yes	Documentary film
	Open Five	No	No	No	No	Yes
2011	Uncle Kent	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Silver Bullets	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Also sound
	Caitlin Plays Herself	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Autoerotic	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Co-directed with Adam Wingard Also special make-up effects
	Art History	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	The Zone	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
2012	V/H/S	Segment Director	No	Segment Producer	Segment Editor	No	Segment: "The Sick Thing That Happened to Emily When She Was Younger" Also sound designer of the segment
	Marriage Material	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
	All the Light in the Sky	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
2013	Drinking Buddies	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
	24 Exposures	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
2014	Happy Christmas	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
2015	Digging for Fire	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
2017	Win It All	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
2020	The Rental	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Build the Wall	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes

Producer only

Year	Film	Role
2009	It Was Great But I Was Ready to Come Home	Producer
2011	What Fun We Were Having: 4 Stories About Date Rape
2015	Queen of Earth	Producer/Associate producer
	Uncle Kent 2	Executive producer
	Bloomin Mud Shuffle	Producer
	Lace Crater
2016	Little Sister	Executive producer
2017	Person To Person
	Golden Exits
2018	Madeline's Madeline
2019	Sword of Trust
	Depraved
	Holy Trinity

Short Film

Year	Film	Director	Writer	Producer	Cinematographer	Editor
2003	Mikey	Yes	Uncredited	Uncredited	Yes	Uncredited
2005	Hissy Fits	Yes	Uncredited	Yes	No	Uncreidted
2006	Thanks for the Ad!	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
2008	Swedish Blueballs	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
	About Film Festivals	No	No	No	Yes	No
	Ginger Sand	No	No	No	Yes	No
2009	Biethday Suit	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	One Shot Film	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
2010	The World of Film Festivals	No	No	No	Yes	No
2012	Stray Bullets	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
2013	Privacy Setting	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Acting roles

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2005	Kissing on the Mouth	Patrick
	Hissy Fits		Short film
2006	LOL	Tim
	Young American Bodies	Ben	TV Series
2007	Hohokam	The Jeffery
	Quiet City	Adam
	Grammy's	Clarence	Short film
	The Timebox Twins	Boy
2008	Untied Strangers	Wes
	Present Company	Archibald King
	Nights and Weekends	James
	Paintbrush	Danny	Short film
2009	You Wont Miss Me
	Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever	Hazmat Team
	The Mountain, the River and the Road	Tom
2010	Everyone Says I Look Just Like Her	Brandon
	A Horrible Way to Die	Kevin
	Blackmail Boys	Andrew Kenneth Tucker
	Audrey the Trainwreck	Jeremy Roth
2011	Uncle Kent	Joe
	Silver Bullets	Ethan
	Caitlin Plays Herself	Joe
	Autoerotic	[citation needed]
	Art History	Sam
	You're Next	Drake Davison
	The Zone	Joe
2012	The Kings of Yorktown	Bartender
	V/H/S	Sam	Segment: "Second Honeymoon"
	Marriage Material	Joe	Medium-length film
2013	Detonator	Sid
	Drinking Buddies	Angry Car Guy
	White Reindeer	George
	The Sacrament	Jake
	Proxy	Patrick Michaels
2014	Happy Christmas	Jeff
	Thou Wast Mild and Lovely	Akin
	Empire Builder	The Husband
	Journeyman	Jake Hopkins	Short film
2015	There	Toth
	Uncle Kent 2	Joe
	Bloomin Mud Shuffle	Brock
	Lace Crater	Dean
2016	Joshy	Aaron
2017	XX	Singing Panda	Segment "The Birthday Party"
2018	Nobody Likes You as Much as I Do	Pauly	Short film
2022	Offseason	George Darrow

Television

Year	Film	Director	Writer	Producer	Editor	Notes
2006-2009	Young American Bodies	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	23 episodes Webseries Also creator, cinematographer and camera operator
2014	Looking	Yes	No	No	No	Episode "Looking in the Mirror"
2016-2017	Love	Yes	No	No	No	3 episodes
2016–2019	Easy	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	25 episodes Also creator
2019	Soundtrack	Yes	No	No	No	2 episodes

References

External links

• Joe Swanberg at IMDb
• Official site
• GreenCine: "More excited than I have ever been": Interview with Joe Swanberg
• indieWIRE INTERVIEW: Joe Swanberg, director of "LOL"
• Filmmaker Magazine: What I Meant to Say
• Crothers, Reece (August 26, 2010). "The Movie That Killed Mumblecore". DailyFilmDose.com. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
• Joe Swanberg, Hell Is For Hyphenates, August 31, 2014

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