Biography
Joe Bini is an American film editor born in 1963 in San Mateo, California. As a film editor, he has collaborated with Werner Herzog on numerous documentaries and feature films in twenty years, including: Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997), Invincible (2001), Grizzly Man (2005), Rescue Dawn (2007), and Encounters at the End of the World (2007), Into the abyss (2011) or Into the Inferno (2016). He has also collaborated with Marina Zenovich (Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, 2008), Andrea Arnold ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Bird
2024
Editor
12-year-old Bailey lives with her single dad Bug and brother Hunter in a squat in North Kent. Bug doesn’t have much time for his kids, and Bailey, who...

My First Film
2024
Editor
A young filmmaker, Vita, revisits her first chaotic attempt at filmmaking 15 years prior. Shooting a semi-autobiographical film starring her friend Di...

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
2022
Editor
The life of internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin is told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, ...

Little Ethiopia: Chez Nous
2020
Director
Joe Bini and Maya Daisy Hawke, both veteran editors, invite you into their home as they confront their own relationship catharsis. What ensues is a li...

A Thousand Thoughts
2018
Director
Filmmaker Sam Green, in collaboration with writer and editor Joe Bini, takes the stage with the legendary classical-music group Kronos Quartet to crea...

Downsizing
2017
Additional Editing
A kindly occupational therapist undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so that he and his wife can help save the planet and affo...

You Were Never Really Here
2017
Editor
A traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, his nightmares begin to overtake...

Salt and Fire
2016
Editor
A scientist blames the head of a large company for an ecological disaster in South America. But when a volcano begins to show signs of erupting, they ...

American Honey
2016
Editor
A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young l...

Into the Inferno
2016
Editor
With stunning views of eruptions and lava flows, Werner Herzog captures the raw power of volcanoes and their ties to indigenous spiritual practices.

The Hard Stop
2016
Executive Producer
A reflection on the 2011 killing of Mark Duggan, a young, black, British man, at the hands of London's Metropolitan Police. Duggan was pulled over ear...

Queen of the Desert
2015
Editor
A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the da...

Tales of the Grim Sleeper
2014
Editor
When Lonnie Franklin Jr. was arrested in South Central Los Angeles in 2010 as the suspected murderer of a string of young black women, police hailed i...

From One Second to the Next
2013
Editor
Stories of serious traffic accidents caused by texting and driving are told by the perpetrators and surviving victims.

Into the Abyss
2011
Editor
We do not know when and how we will die. Death Row inmates do. Werner Herzog embarks on a dialogue with Death Row inmates, asks questions about life a...

We Need to Talk About Kevin
2011
Editor
After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a todd...

Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010
Editor
Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind ...

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
2010
Editor
In the center of the story is the life of the indigenous people of the village Bakhtia at the river Yenisei in the Siberian Taiga. The camera follows ...

The Tillman Story
2010
Editor, Writer
Pat Tillman never thought of himself as a hero. His choice to leave a multimillion-dollar football contract and join the military wasn't done for any ...

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010
Editor
Brad has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the strange ta...

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
2009
Editor
Terrence McDonagh is a New Orleans Police sergeant, who receives a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. Due to hi...

La Bohème
2009
Editor
Part of a series of opera shorts by different directors. Herzog combines O Soave Fanciulla ("Oh you vision of beauty" from Puccini's La Boheme) with i...

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
2008
Editor, Writer
Examines the public scandal and private tragedy which led to legendary director Roman Polanski's sudden flight from the United States.

Encounters at the End of the World
2007
Editor
Herzog and cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger go to Antarctica to meet people who live and work there, and to capture footage of the continent's unique ...

Rescue Dawn
2007
Editor
A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.

In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session
2005
as Self
With Herzog's direction, Richard Thompson leads a small group of musicians into creating Grizzly Man's evocative soundtrack.

In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session
2005
Editor
With Herzog's direction, Richard Thompson leads a small group of musicians into creating Grizzly Man's evocative soundtrack.

The Wild Blue Yonder
2005
Editor
An alien narrates the story of his dying planet, his and his people's visitations to Earth and Earth's self-made demise, while human astronauts in spa...

Grizzly Man
2005
Editor
Werner Herzog's documentary film about the "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen summers in a National Park in Alaska were like in one...

The White Diamond
2004
Editor
This 2004 documentary by Werner Herzog diaries the struggle of a passionate English inventor to design and test a unique airship during its maiden fli...

Wheel of Time
2003
Editor
Wheel of Time is Werner Herzog's photographed look at the largest Buddhist ritual in Bodh Gaya, India.

Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2002
Editor
Ten Minutes Older is a 2002 film project consisting of two compilation feature films entitled The Trumpet and The Cello. The project was conceived by ...

Invincible
2001
Editor
A Jewish strongman performs in Berlin as the blond Aryan hero Siegfried.

Pilgrimage
2001
Editor
Accompanied only by music the film alternates between shots of pilgrims near the tomb of Saint Sergei in Sergiyev Posad, Russia and pilgrims at the Ba...

Wings of Hope
1999
Editor
Werner Herzog returns to the South American jungle with Juliane Koepcke, the German woman who was the sole survivor of a plane crash there in 1971. Th...

My Best Fiend
1999
Editor
A film that describes the love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep trust between the director and the actor, and their ...

Little Dieter Needs to Fly
1997
Editor
Three decades after German-American pilot Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, he returns to the places where he was held prisoner during the early...

Burden of Other People's Dreams
N/A
as Narrator
Burden of Other People’s Dreams is an attempt to cross the experience of reading a book with the experience of watching a film. Created by renowned f...

Polaris
N/A
Editor
In Alaska in the 1890s, an ice photographer meets the devil.
Napoli 1990, Napoli 2023
N/A
Editor
1990. Led by Diego Maradona, the god of football, Napoli wins the national championship – the Scudetto – unleashing days of celebration in the city. 3...

Burden of Other People's Dreams
N/A
Director, Writer, Editor
Burden of Other People’s Dreams is an attempt to cross the experience of reading a book with the experience of watching a film. Created by renowned f...