Sam Green
Known for Directing
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
The Weather Underground
2002
Director
The Weather Underground
2002
Producer
The Making of Ladies and Gentlemen, Fabulous Stains
1999
Director
The Universal Language
2011
Director
The Universal Language
2011
Writer
The Universal Language
2011
Producer
Annea Lockwood: A Film About Listening
2021
Director
32 Sounds
2023
as Self (Narrator)
32 Sounds
2023
Director
Julius Caesar Was Buried in a Pet Cemetery
2018
Director
Julius Caesar Was Buried in a Pet Cemetery
2018
Writer
A Thousand Thoughts
2018
Director
A Thousand Thoughts
2018
Writer
A Thousand Thoughts
2018
Producer
Utopia in Four Movements
2010
Director
Utopia in Four Movements
2010
Producer
The Oldest Person in the World
2026
Director
This is What the Future Looked Like
2017
Director
The Rainbow Man/John 3:16
1997
Director
The Rainbow Man/John 3:16
1997
Writer