JOE SWANBERG: COLLECTED FILMS 2011
LTD SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE BOX SET | THEATRICAL
Catalog No.: FTF-020 | In theaters: September 23, 2011 | 
Director: Joe Swanberg | Year: 2011

1 Year Subscription - North America: $99.95            

1 Year Subscription - International: $99.95              

3rd installment (THE ZONE) to ship December 7th.

4th installment (Privacy Settings) to ship February 14th.

Box Specs: 7" square box signed and numbered by Joe Swanberg, 4 dvds with loads of extras in unique 7" packaging, Jane Adams Photo book, 7" vinyl single with music from Silver Bullets and more

Synopsis

Factory 25 is thrilled to announce a groundbreaking collaboration with prolific indie director Joe Swanberg (HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS, ALEXANDER THE LAST, AUTOEROTIC). Joe Swanberg: Collected Films 2011 represents an entirely new way to distribute indie cinema. Subscribers will receive a package each quarter for one year that represents Swanberg’s most intimate and personal films in their most intimate and personal presentation. At the end of the year subscribers will own a box set containing 4 of Swanberg’s films (including a film exclusive to this limited edition set), exclusive music on vinyl and much more.  Only 1,000 subscriptions are being offered, making this box set an instant collector's item.

Beginning this Fall, subscribers will receive Swanberg’s acclaimed Silver Bullets in a unique 7” box signed and numbered by Joe Swanberg. In addition to the film, subscribers will receive exclusive extras including a vinyl single featuring music from the film and a small book featuring photographs by actress Jane Adams from the set of Silver Bullets. Every three months subscribers will receive a new film and exclusive extra material to add to their collection.  Following Silver Bullets is Art History (Winter ‘12), The Zone (Spring ‘12) and the subscriber-only exclusive Privacy Settings (Summer ‘12).

Factory 25 will also be distributing Silver Bullets and Art History theatrically. Art History opens September 23rd in New York followed by Silver Bullets on October 28th.

SILVER BULLETS
LTD LP/DVD BOX SET | THEATRICAL
Catalog No.: FTF-020a | 
Release date: October 28, 2011 | 
Director: Joe Swanberg | 
Length: 70 minutes
 | Year: 2011

Ethan (Joe Swanberg) is a director who aims to make meaningful art films, but is struggling with a creative slump and disengagement with his work. His girlfriend Claire (Kate Lyn Sheil), is an actress whose career is beginning to take off. She has accepted the lead part in a werewolf movie being directed by talented young horror filmmaker Ben (Ti West).  Ethan's depression leads to jealousy over both Claire’s success and her increasingly close relationship with Ben. Ethan decides to retaliate against Claire by casting her best friend Charlie (Amy Seimetz) in a romantic role opposite himself in his new film. As pettiness and jealousy spiral out of control within their relationship, Claire begins to slip into a surreal fantasy world that more closely mirrors her role in the werewolf film than that of her real life.  Largely improvised Silver Bullets draws inspiration from Chekhov ‘s The Seagull and Roman Polanski’s Bitter Moon, while using David Foster Wallace as a reference point to explores fame, depression and suicide.

Starring: Kate Lyn Sheil, Ti West, Amy Seimetz, Joe Swanberg, Jane Adams and Larry Fessenden

Festivals: Berlin, SXSW and Maryland

ART HISTORY
LTD LP/DVD BOX SET | THEATRICAL
Catalog No.: FTF-020b | 
Release date: September 23, 2011 | 
Director: Joe Swanberg | 
Length: 74 minutes
 | Year: 2011

Sam (Joe Swanberg) has feelings for Juliette (Josephine Decker), the lead actress in a sexually explicit drama centered on a couple's one night stand. He must maintain a professional relationship while directing her. All is going well until Juliette and her co-star Eric (Kent Osborne) develop feelings for each other that they explore off-camera. Sam is happy that his actors have such great chemistry, but simultaneously feels jealous. Juliette senses Sam's shifting moods and does her best to show him affection, but his own inner struggles threaten to derail the production.

Swanberg describes Art History as being both the most beautiful and the most disgusting-looking movie he has ever made. Set entirely in one location over the course of a few days, ART HISTORY uses long static takes and minimal lighting to create a mood of claustrophobia and mystery. Despite the small space they're living and working in, the characters often seem unaware of one another through their individual experiences.

Starring: Josephine Decker, Joe Swanberg, Kent Osborne, Adam Wingard and Kris Swanberg

Festivals: Berlin, Uruguay and Maryland

THE ZONE
LTD LP/DVD BOX SET 
Catalog No.: FTF-020c | 
Release date: Summer 2012 | 
Director: Joe Swanberg | 
Length: 70 minutes
 | Year: 2011

A mysterious visitor (Kentucker Audley) spends the night at an apartment belonging to a young engaged couple (Sophia Takal and Lawrence Michael Levine) and their friend (Kate Lyn Sheil.)  Over the course of the night and the following day he sleeps with all three roommates and then disappears, leading to conversations about God, life and filmmaking.

Starring: Sophia Takal, Lawrence Michael Levine, Kate Lyn Sheil, Kentucker Audley, Joe Swanberg

PRIVACY SETTING
LTD LP/DVD BOX SET 
Catalog No.: FTF-020d | 
Release date: Fall 2012 | 
Director: Joe Swanberg | 
Length: 70 minutes
 | Year: 2011

A peeping Tom (Frank V. Ross) stumbles into a mutually beneficial relationship with an exhibitionist.

 Press

"Swanberg is in the midst of an extraordinary surge of artistic creation and invention; the work that he’s putting out is powerful and modern, but it’s modern in classic ways."
- Richard Brody, The New Yorker

“Joe Swanberg is taking big steps.”
- Mark Olsen, LA Times

"None of these films are fun; they're my guts being spread out on screen."
- Joe Swanberg

The first installment of Joe Swanberg Collected Films: 2011

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