Lance Bangs

Lance Bangs (born September 8, 1972 in Sacramento, California) is a documentary filmmaker 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".

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

He produced DubVideoDubs 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 cameramen/documenter for and Jackass Number Two. He also was a part of the , filming behind the scenes material.

Bangs is married to Corin Tucker of Sleater-Kinney and together they have two children.

Filmography

Music videos

*"I Can't Stand It Anymore" by Five-Eight (1993)
*"Tonight I'm Gonna Destroy This World" by Five-Eight (1993)
*"Coupleskate" by Joe Christmas (1994)
*"The Diamond Sea" by Sonic Youth (1995)
*"That's When I Reach for My Revolver" by Moby (1996)
*"Capital A" by Lois (1996)
*"How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us" by R.E.M. (1996)
*"New Test Leper" by R.E.M. (1996)
*"Stay" by 60 ft. Dolls (1996)
*"Busy Child" by Crystal Method (1997)
*"Kid in Candy" by The Spinanes (1997)
*"Dirty Dream Number Two" by Belle & Sebastian (1998)
*"Praise You" by Fatboy Slim (1999) (Camera Operator)
*"Spit on a Stranger" by Pavement (1999)
*"Carrot Rope" by Pavement (1999)
*"Major Leagues" by Pavement (1999)
*"Major Leagues (Wrestling Version)" by Pavement (1999)
*"Last Ride In" by Green Day (1999)
*"The Wrong Girl" by Belle & Sebastian (2000)
*"The Time of Your Life" by The Yo-Yos (2000)
*"Hewlett's Daughter" by Grandaddy (2000)
*"New Slang" by The Shins (2001)
*"Know Your Onion!" by The Shins (2002)
*"Commerce, TX" by Ben Kweller (2002)
*"The Hardest Button to Button" by The White Stripes (director of photography)(2003)
*"No Culture Icons" by The Thermals (2003)
*"Tied a Reed 'Round My Waist" by Mike Watt (2005)
*"Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)" by Arcade Fire (2005)
*"Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)" by Arcade Fire (with Josh Deu)(2005)
*"Heard 'Em Say" by Kanye West (director of photography)(2005)
*"Talking Like Turnstiles" by Death Cab for Cutie (2005)
*"Wet and Rusting" by Menomena (2007)
*"Down Boy" by Yeah Yeah Yeahs (2007)
*"10x10" by Yeah Yeah Yeahs (2007)
*"Rockers To Swallow" by Yeah Yeah Yeahs (2007)
*"Isis" by Yeah Yeah Yeahs (2007)
*"Kiss Kiss" by Yeah Yeah Yeahs (2007)
*"Strange Times" by The Black Keys (2008)

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" (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)

Film

*"Jesus of Suburbia" (director) (1990)
*"Hit the Ground" (director) (1991)
*"" (director) (1992)
*"Parking Lots" (director) (1994)
*"Being John Malkovich" (documentarian) (1999)
*"Torrance Rises" (director, director of photography) (1999)
*"Run Ronnie Run" (documentarian) (2001)
*"Adaptation." (documentarian) (2002)
*"" (camera operator, documentarian) (2002)
*"Exile on Main St. (tour visuals)" for The Rolling Stones (2002)
*"Some Girls (tour visuals)" for The Rolling Stones (2002)
*"Sweet Emotion (tour visuals)" for Aerosmith (2003)
*"Dave Chappelle's Block Party" (camera operator, 2nd unit director of photography) (2006)
*"" (camera operator, documentarian) (2006)
*"Be Kind, Rewind" (documentarian) (2008)
*"Where the Wild Things Are" (documentarian) (post-production) (2009)

Television

*"Jackass" (camera operator) (2000)
*"Sonic Youth Video Dose" (director) (2004)
*"" (behind the scenes documentarian) (2008)

Trivia

*Lance is a vegetarian, a fact exploited several times during the filming of .
*He is commonly remembered as the guy who puked on when Dave England pooped in the limo and the guy laughing outrageously during The Butt Chug in Jackass Number Two.

References

* [http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=149097] 2005 Cannes Lion Awards
* [http://www.jackassworld.com] Jackassworld

External links

* [http://www.lancebangs.com/ lancebangs.com] - Lance Bangs website
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* [http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=306542&mod=bio nytimes.com] - New York Times biography