Sam Green
Known for: Directing
Born: December 31, 1965 in 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
Self (Narrator)
Annea Lockwood: A Film About Listening
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The Weather Underground
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The Rainbow Man/John 3:16
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Utopia in Four Movements
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The Universal Language
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Love Letter to the Fog
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7 Sounds
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(Commissioned) Portrait of Las Vegas
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This is What the Future Looked Like
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The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller
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Don’t Call Me Gay Zelig
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Julius Caesar Was Buried in a Pet Cemetery
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A Thousand Thoughts
Producer
Daisy
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Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
Editor
And with Him Came the West
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Utopia, Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping Mall
Producer
Lot 63, Grave C
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Clear Glasses
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N Judah 5:30
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A Cinematic Study of Fog in San Francisco
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Pie Fight '69
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The Measure of All Things
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