For Swanberg, this is often achieved through improvisational performances, digital photography and frank depictions of sex. Following his 2005 debut, Kissing on the Mouth, Swanberg embarked on a string of at least one film a year until 2010, three of which featured Greta Gerwig (culminating in their co-directed Nights and Weekends). The Gerwig collaborations and the following film Alexander the Last, seemed to signal a move towards a more traditional form of filmmaking. However, 2011's Uncle Kent saw a return to the almost formalistic naturalism of his early work, including segments shot on a Flip camera, while Autoerotic is an omnibus film made with Adam Wingard.