Lance Bangs

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Lance Bangs (born September 8, 1972 in Sacramento, California) is a filmmaker, documentarian, and music video director who has created videos for Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Green Day, the Arcade Fire, the Shins, Belle & Sebastian, Menomena, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, R.E.M., Mike Watt, Death Cab for Cutie, The Black Keys, Kanye West, and Pavement. He directed the David Cross film Let America Laugh.

Founded Flicker, a series of Super8mm and 16mm film screenings while in Athens, GA in 1990 along with Michael Lachowski and Angie Grass. *»http://www.ibiblio.org/flickerfilms/about.html Flicker Films at Ibiblio.org

As a commercial director he has worked with UPS, Nike, Subway, Rock Band and Volvo for several campaigns, including the Titanium Lion winning Life on Board campaign from the 2005 Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival.

He produced DVDS for the Directors Label Series, covering the work of Chris Cunningham, Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Mark Romanek, Stephane Sednaoui, Jonathan Glazer and Anton Corbijn. He has also been involved with Spike Jonze on a number of occasions, recently being one of the cinematographers for and Jackass Number Two. He also was a part of the , filming behind the scenes material.

He has aired an ongoing series of short (often music-related) documentaries on VBS.TV since 2007 in the form of his show "Bangs".

Bangs is married to Corin Tucker of Sleater-Kinney and together they have two children. He has performed musically as well, both with his wife and with Canadian indie rock group The Dudes. There are plans for a west coast summer 2009 tour, billed as Lance Bangs w/ The Dudes.

Filmography

Music videos

Video

  • Green Day: European Tour Fiasco (director) (1996)
  • "Jeff Mangum: Starlit Crypt" (director) (1997)
  • Let America Laugh (director, producer, director of photography) (2003)
  • The Hives: Live on The Sunset Strip (director, producer, director of photography) (2003)
  • Corporate Ghost (director) (2004)
  • With the Lights Out (producer, director, editor) (2004)
  • Tell Me What Rockers to Swallow (director, producer, cinematographer) (2004)
  • (director, producer, cinematographer) (2005)
  • Ohio Players (director, producer, cinematographer) (2005)
  • Glasslands (director, producer, cinematographer) (2007)
  • Deitch Projects Art Parade (director, producer) (2007)
  • The Gossip Live in Liverpool (director, producer, cinematographer) (2007)
  • Gather 'Round Now (director, producer, cinematographer) (2007)
  • Passaic Mosaic (director, producer, cinematographer) (2008)
  • (director, producer, cinematographer) (2008)
  • Booker T & The Michel Gondry (director, producer, cinematographer) (2008)
  • (producer, director) (2008)
  • (producer, director) (2008)

Film

Television

  • Jackass (camera operator) (2000)
  • Sonic Youth Video Dose (director) (2004)
  • Nirvana: With The Lights Out (produced/directed) (2004)
  • (behind the scenes documentarian) (2008)
  • (director, producer) (2009)

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