Joe Bini

San Mateo, California, USA 41 Credits

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 ...

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Bird

Bird

2024

Editor

7.3

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

My First Film

2024

Editor

7.1

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

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

2022

Editor

7.3

The life of internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin is told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, ...

Little Ethiopia: Chez Nous

Little Ethiopia: Chez Nous

2020

Director

Directing

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

A Thousand Thoughts

2018

Director

Directing

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

Downsizing

2017

Additional Editing

5.4

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

You Were Never Really Here

2017

Editor

6.5

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

Salt and Fire

2016

Editor

4.9

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

American Honey

2016

Editor

6.8

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

Into the Inferno

2016

Editor

7.0

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

The Hard Stop

2016

Executive Producer

6.0
Producing

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

Queen of the Desert

2015

Editor

5.9

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

Tales of the Grim Sleeper

2014

Editor

6.4

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

From One Second to the Next

2013

Editor

7.0

Stories of serious traffic accidents caused by texting and driving are told by the perpetrators and surviving victims.

Into the Abyss

Into the Abyss

2011

Editor

6.9

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

We Need to Talk About Kevin

2011

Editor

7.5

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

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

2010

Editor

7.1

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

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

2010

Editor

7.3

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

The Tillman Story

2010

Editor, Writer

7.1
Writing

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

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

2010

Editor

6.0

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

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans

2009

Editor

6.2

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

La Bohème

2009

Editor

4.9

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

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

2008

Editor, Writer

6.4
Writing

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

Encounters at the End of the World

2007

Editor

7.4

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

Rescue Dawn

2007

Editor

7.0

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

In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session

2005

as Self

Acting

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

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

The Wild Blue Yonder

2005

Editor

6.1

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

Grizzly Man

2005

Editor

7.5

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

The White Diamond

2004

Editor

6.8

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

Wheel of Time

2003

Editor

6.4

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

Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

2002

Editor

6.7

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

Invincible

2001

Editor

6.1

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

Pilgrimage

Pilgrimage

2001

Editor

4.6

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

Wings of Hope

1999

Editor

6.9

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

My Best Fiend

1999

Editor

7.3

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

Little Dieter Needs to Fly

1997

Editor

7.5

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

Burden of Other People's Dreams

N/A

as Narrator

Acting

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

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

Burden of Other People's Dreams

N/A

Director, Writer, Editor

Directing Writing

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...