Joe Bini studied film at the New York University. He makes commercials and several independent and experimental films, among them Somber Accommodations with which he won the Special Jury Prize at the 1991 San Francisco International Film Festival.

Joe Bini

Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog's remake of Abel Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant (1993) moves the setting to New Orleans during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, but has the same protagonists: a cocaine-crazed and flipped-out cop (Nicolas Cage). He obsessively gets his teeth into the murder of five Senegalese illegal immigrants.

IFFR 2010

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans, 

Spectrum

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans

A second homage by Herzog to the indestructible urge to survive of the pilot Dieter Dengler who was shot down during the Vietnam war and had to conquer imprisonment in the impenetrable jungle. Physical and challenging role for Christian Bale, who shows himself to be a worthy successor to Klaus Kinski.

IFFR 2007

Rescue Dawn, 

Maestros: Kings & Aces

Rescue Dawn

Short musical film in the spirit of Dennis Potter.

IFFR 1995

Bottom Buck, 

main programme short

Bottom Buck

Werner Herzog's horror film 'without axes and chain saws'. An actor in a play about Oedipus threatens to kill his real mother. He shuts himself up with two hostages and while the police negotiate outside, flashbacks show how things could have got this far. David Lynch co-produces.

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?, 

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?

Andrea Arnold

Pounding music; the youngsters sing, smoke weed, have sex and fight. The ragged Star (scintillating debut from Sasha Lane) falls for Jake (Shia LaBeouf) and jumps in his van to travel with him. A depressing look at the American economy, but an optimistic take on the strength of young people. First American production by British director Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank).

IFFR 2017

Voices

American Honey, 

Limelight

American Honey

Two kinds of eternal beauty. Puccini's La bohème and the beautiful ear decorations of the Ethiopian Mursi tribe. Real Herzog. Uncomfortable beauty.Screened before God No Say So.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Joe Bini

Filmography

Joe Bini at IFFR

Bottom Buck

Rescue Dawn

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans

La bohème

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?

American Honey