Lance Bangs (born September 4, 1972 in Sacramento, California) is a documentary filmmaker and music video director, who has created videos for Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Green Day, the Arcade Fire, the Shins, Belle & Sebastian, Menomena, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, R.E.M., Mike Watt, Death Cab for Cutie, Kanye West, and Pavement. He directed the David Cross film Let America Laugh.
As a commercial director he has worked with UPS and Volvo for several campaigns, including the Titanium Lion winning Life on Board campaign from the 2005 Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival.
He produced DVDs for the Directors Label Series, covering the work of Chris Cunningham, Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Mark Romanek, Stephane Sednaoui, Jonathan Glazer and Anton Corbijn. He has also been involved with Spike Jonze on a number of occasions, recently being one of the cameramen/documenter for Jackass: The Movie and Jackass Number Two. He also was a part of the Jackassworld.com: 24 Hour Takeover, filming behind the scenes material.
Bangs is married to Corin Tucker of Sleater-Kinney and together they have one child, Marshall Tucker-Bangs.
