Directing
Sam Green
1966 · East Lansing, Michigan, USA
26 films
Bio
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.
Filmography
32 Sounds
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Oldest Person in the World
Director
The Weather Underground
Director
Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
Editor
Clear Glasses
Director
The Universal Language
Director
Daisy
Writer
The Making of Ladies and Gentlemen, Fabulous Stains
Director
A Thousand Thoughts
Writer
7 Sounds
Director
Julius Caesar Was Buried in a Pet Cemetery
Writer
This is What the Future Looked Like
Director