Joe Swanberg Movies

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

Melissa and Stephanie fantasize about becoming downtown "IT" girls , but their dreams come crashing down on them when the photographer they idolize...

An anthology film consisting of four segments, entitled "Hot Boys," "The Sleep Creep," "The Meat Man," and "Silver Bullets," each of which obliquely...

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...

A kaleidoscopic film portrait of Shelly Brown, a twenty-three year-old alienated urban misfit recently released from a psychiatric hospital.

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...

The relationships of three men are examined through their use of technology.

From an audacious opening scene that runs over 22 minutes (before the credits!) to an ending that is as quiet as it is disquieting, SON OF A SEAHORSE...

'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...

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...

Made up entirely of stills, 'Paintbrush' presents portraits of ten users of a fictitious online social networking website. By detailing the...

A man and woman must face the tension that builds between them during a long-distance relationship.

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...

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...

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...

Emily and Andrew, a young couple living in Memphis, agree to babysit their friend’s 6-month-old for a day. The experience causes them to...

After moving to a farmhouse with her newly single mother and leaving her father behind, a teenage girl's curiosity awakens something strange within...

A romantic tale of two body-swapping aliens trying to find their place on this big, dumb planet.

Nominated for two Chicago/Midwest Emmy awards including Outstanding Historical Documentary and Outstanding Off-Camera Directing, "90 Years of the...

A pothead kid's show cartoonist in Los Angeles spends a weekend trying to sleep with his visiting house guest - a woman from New York who he met on...