Person
Sam Green
Directing
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Jan 1, 1966
- From
- East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Sam Green (born in 1966; East Lansing) is an American documentary filmmaker. His most recent projects are “live documentaries” including 32 Sounds (2022) with electronic musician JD Samson, A Thousand Thoughts (2018) in collaboration with the Kronos Quartet, The Measure of All Things (2014), and The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller (2012), which premiered at the Museum of Modern Art as part of the San Francisco International Film Festival. All four works are performed live, with Green narrating and musicians performing the soundtrack. Green's 2004 film The Weather Underground was nominated for an Academy Award, included in the Whitney Biennial, and broadcast nationally on PBS.
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32 Sounds
Annea Lockwood: A Film About Listening
The Weather Underground
The Rainbow Man/John 3:16
Utopia in Four Movements
The Universal Language
Love Letter to the Fog
7 Sounds
(Commissioned) Portrait of Las Vegas
This is What the Future Looked Like
The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller
Don’t Call Me Gay Zelig
Julius Caesar Was Buried in a Pet Cemetery
A Thousand Thoughts
Daisy
Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
And with Him Came the West
Utopia, Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping Mall