Joe Swanberg Movies

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 blend of reality and fiction, "Open Five" follows the story of Jake, a struggling musician and his sidekick, Kentucker, a maker of "poor" films and...

Multiple perspectives of an open and shut home invasion converge to create this folkloric noir of deception and deceit.

An insomniac actress is facing the waning days of her career, when her niece pays a visit to her Malibu house.

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.

A queer femme dominatrix huffs a magic aerosol can and develops the ability to speak to the dead.

Documentary and live footage from the final performance of Father Sexy.

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 her days of food activism and urban anthropology have been replaced by diapers and...

Caitlin, a young Chicago performance artist, struggles to create work that is both personal and political. A piece she performs about the BP oil...

Ed and Richard are brothers. They're also con artists. Not incredibly successful ones, but they get by. Ed's the leader. Richard's a bit slow. Their...

A single-shot short produced by Joe Swanberg for the Northwest Film Forum.

From rocker to family man, this captivating debut reveals the strife we face when it’s time to grow up. The rhythm of Sully’s (Lawrence...

Leading very separate lives, Christy and her boyfriend Buddy live together in her parent's basement with their baby Mikey. As Christy, a waitress and...

'LOL' director Joe Swanberg was given an early screenplay draft of 'Quiet City' the day before he and friends Tipper Newton and Kevin Bewersdorf flew...

A brother and sister discover the secret behind the "timebox" a device that is used to keep schools on schedual, you hook four together and get a...

A peeping Tom (Frank V. Ross) stumbles into a mutually beneficial relationship with an exhibitionist.

A disgruntled veteran unable to adjust back into society justifies domestic terrorism by interpreting his actions with alien invasion.

Two sisters, one white and one black, spend a week together at their famous father's summer home. A microscopic examination of the new American...

An obnoxious American tourist gets more than he bargained for when he meets a Swedish girl on the street in Stockholm.