When Joe Swanberg and other “mumblecore” filmmakers began making waves on the festival circuit a few years ago, many considered John Cassavetes to be the progenitor of their seemingly lackadaisical ...

The very first shot of “Art History” features a close-up of a woman’s hand placing a condom on an erection. If you needed any further clues that prolific indie filmmaker Joe Swanberg has no intention ...

Throughout Art History—another origami dispatch from mumblecore associate Joe Swanberg’s inner circle—men ask Josephine Decker if she’s all right. The first time it happens, she has just tugged a ...

Even Joe Swanberg has to stop to count the number of Joe Swanberg movies out there right now. Just this year he premiered “Uncle Kent” at Sundance and unveiled “Silver Bullets” and “Art History” at ...

As one of the pivotal auteurs behind the mumblecore movement (just please don't call it mumblecore), New York-based Joe Swanberg's fortunes have seemingly crested and sunk and then crested yet again ...

Future art historians may use Joe Swanberg's latest to illustrate the paucity of ideas and means in the 2010s. There’s neither art nor history in Joe Swanberg’s “Art History,” though future art ...

When Joe Swanberg’s “Uncle Kent” premièred at Sundance and on video-on-demand two weeks ago, I mentioned that he’d have two films screening together at the Berlin Film Festival, and it turns out that ...