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Lance Bangs

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Lance Bangs
Born (1972-09-04) September 4, 1972 (age 52)
Occupation(s)Filmmaker, music video director
Spouse
(m. 2000)
Children2
Websitelancebangs.com

Lance Bangs (born September 4, 1972)[1] is an American filmmaker and music video director. He directed the David Cross film Let America Laugh. Bangs has also been heavily involved in the filming and production of MTV's Jackass television series and its subsequent movies.

Life and career

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Bangs was born in Sacramento, California. He founded Flicker Film Festival, a series of Super8mm and 16mm film screenings, while in Athens, Georgia, in 1990 along with Michael Lachowski and Angie Grass.[2]

He has created videos for Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Neutral Milk Hotel, Green Day, Arcade Fire, The Shins, The Thermals, Belle & Sebastian, Menomena, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, R.E.M., Mike Watt, Death Cab for Cutie, The Black Keys, Kanye West, Odd Future, Pavement, and George Harrison.[citation needed]

As a commercial director he has worked with United Parcel Service, Nike, Subway, Rock Band and Volvo for several campaigns, including the Titanium Lion-winning campaign for Volvo's "Life on Board Project" campaign from the 2005 Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival.[3]

He produced DVDs for the Directors Label Series, covering the work of Chris Cunningham, Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Mark Romanek, Stéphane Sednaoui, Jonathan Glazer and Anton Corbijn. He has also been involved with Spike Jonze on a number of occasions, being one of the cameramen for Jackass: The Movie, Jackass Number Two, Jackass 2.5, Jackass 3D, Jackass 3.5, Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa, Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa .5, Jackass Forever, and Jackass 4.5. He also was a part of the Jackassworld.com: 24 Hour Takeover, filming behind the scenes material. In 2009, they were shortlisted for an Academy Award for "Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak".[4]

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

Bangs is married to Corin Tucker of Sleater-Kinney[5] 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 were plans for a west coast summer 2009 tour, billed as Lance Bangs w/ The Dudes.

Selected filmography

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Music videos

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Video

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Film

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Television

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Specials

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References

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  1. ^ Bangs, Lance (September 4, 2021). "Happy shared Birthday to @gorillaflicks Jeff Tremaine". Instagram. Retrieved September 4, 2022.
  2. ^ "flicker films". Ibiblio.org. Retrieved August 12, 2014.
  3. ^ "Euro RSCG Wins 15 Cannes Lions" PR Newswire. Accessed October 6, 2016
  4. ^ "Oscar short documentary contenders named". Hollywoodreporter.com. October 9, 2009. Retrieved August 12, 2014.
  5. ^ "Sleater-Kinney's Corin Tucker & Filmmaker Lance Bangs : Bullseye with Jesse Thorn". NPR.org. Retrieved June 3, 2021.
  6. ^ Blistein, Jon (December 15, 2021). "Ringo Starr Chucks Popcorn at Fred Armisen in Video for George Harrison's 'My Sweet Lord'". Rolling Stone. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
  7. ^ "George Harrison - My Sweet Lord (Official Music Video)". YouTube. VEVO. December 15, 2021. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
  8. ^ "LCD Soundsystem Want Your Cloud Footage | News". Pitchfork. March 31, 2011. Retrieved August 12, 2014.
  9. ^ "The Museum of Modern Art Presents Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years - /Film". Slashfilm.com. August 25, 2009. Retrieved August 12, 2014.
  10. ^ "Collaborators, Spike Jonze's Award-Winning Commercials, and Jackass: The Movie". MoMA. October 17, 2009. Retrieved August 12, 2014.
  11. ^ "John Hodgman: RAGNAROK - Netflix". Netflix. Retrieved June 19, 2013.
  12. ^ John Hodgman (June 10, 2013). "JOHN HODGMAN: RAGNAROK ON NETFLIX". Tumblr. Retrieved June 19, 2013.
  13. ^ "Marc Maron: Thinky Pain | Netflix". www.netflix.com.
  14. ^ "Todd Barry: The Crowd Work Tour". louisck.net. Archived from the original on October 10, 2018.
  15. ^ "I'm Brent Morin". Netflix. Retrieved December 13, 2015.
  16. ^ "Hannibal Buress: Comedy Camisado | Netflix Official Site". www.netflix.com.
  17. ^ Brandon Wardell: Summer 2019 (LEAKED EPIC STANDUP COMEDY SET) (GONE SEXUAL?!?), archived from the original on December 12, 2021, retrieved October 30, 2021
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