Sam Green
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.
Crew
Annea Lockwood: A Film About Listening
Director
The Weather Underground
Director, Editor, Producer
The Rainbow Man/John 3:16
Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
Utopia in Four Movements
Director, Producer, Editor
The Universal Language
Director, Producer, Writer, Editor
32 Sounds
Director, Editor
7 Sounds
Director
This is What the Future Looked Like
Director
(Commissioned) Portrait of Las Vegas
Director
The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller
Director
Love Letter to the Fog
Director
Don’t Call Me Gay Zelig
Director
And with Him Came the West
Writer
Daisy
Writer
A Thousand Thoughts
Writer, Producer, Director
Julius Caesar Was Buried in a Pet Cemetery
Writer, Director
Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
Editor
Utopia, Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping Mall
Producer, Director
Lot 63, Grave C
Director, Editor
Clear Glasses
Director
N Judah 5:30
Director
A Cinematic Study of Fog in San Francisco
Director
Pie Fight '69
Director
The Measure of All Things
Director
The Making of Ladies and Gentlemen, Fabulous Stains
Director
The Oldest Person in the World
Director, Editor