Sam Green
Directing
- Born
- January 1, 1966 (age 60) · 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.
Known for
The Weather Underground
November 17, 2002
32 Sounds
April 28, 2023
Pie Fight '69
June 17, 2000
The Rainbow Man/John 3:16
January 21, 1997
And with Him Came the West
February 22, 2019
Lot 63, Grave C
January 1, 2006
The Making of Ladies and Gentlemen, Fabulous Stains
May 24, 1999
Annea Lockwood: A Film About Listening
April 1, 2021
The Universal Language
October 10, 2011
Julius Caesar Was Buried in a Pet Cemetery
January 19, 2018
Utopia, Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping Mall
November 11, 2009
N Judah 5:30
January 16, 2004
Behind the camera26
- 2026The Oldest Person in the World Director, Editor
- 202332 Sounds Director, Editor
- 2021Annea Lockwood: A Film About Listening Director
- 20207 Sounds Director
- 2019Don’t Call Me Gay Zelig Director
- 2019And with Him Came the West Writer
- 2018A Thousand Thoughts Producer, Writer, Director
- 2018Julius Caesar Was Buried in a Pet Cemetery Writer, Director
- 2017This is What the Future Looked Like Director
- 2014