Sam Green
Director
Biography
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.
As Director
32 Sounds
2023
Pie Fight '69
2000
Annea Lockwood: A Film About Listening
2021
The Rainbow Man/John 3:16
1997
The Universal Language
2011
Lot 63, Grave C
2006
Julius Caesar Was Buried in a Pet Cemetery
2018
The Making of Ladies and Gentlemen, Fabulous Stains
1999
Utopia in Four Movements
2010
Love Letter to the Fog
2013