About
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 Oldest Person in the World2026 · Director, Editor
32 Sounds2023 · Director, Editor
Annea Lockwood: A Film About Listening2021 · Director
7 Sounds2020 · Director
Don’t Call Me Gay Zelig2019 · Director
And with Him Came the West2019 · Writer
A Thousand Thoughts2018 · Writer, Producer, Director
Julius Caesar Was Buried in a Pet Cemetery2018 · Writer, Director
This is What the Future Looked Like2017 · Director
The Measure of All Things2014 · Director
Love Letter to the Fog2013 · Director
A Cinematic Study of Fog in San Francisco2013 · Director
The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller2012 · Director
(Commissioned) Portrait of Las Vegas2011 · Director
The Universal Language2011 · Producer, Director, Writer, Editor
Utopia in Four Movements2010 · Editor, Producer, Director
Utopia, Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping Mall2009 · Producer, Director
Clear Glasses2008 · Director
Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans2008 · Editor
Lot 63, Grave C2006 · Director, Editor