Sam Green

Directing·Jan 1, 1966·East Lansing, Michigan, USA

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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.

Film	Credit
The Oldest Person in the World2026 · Director	Director
32 Sounds2023 · Self - Narrator (voice), Director	Self - Narrator (voice), Director
Annea Lockwood: A Film About Listening2021 · Director	Director
7 Sounds2020 · Director	Director
Don’t Call Me Gay Zelig2019 · Director	Director
And with Him Came the West2019 · Writer	Writer
A Thousand Thoughts2018 · Writer, Producer, Director	Writer, Producer, Director
Julius Caesar Was Buried in a Pet Cemetery2018 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
This is What the Future Looked Like2017 · Director	Director
The Measure of All Things2014 · Director	Director
LLove Letter to the Fog2013 · Director	Director
A Cinematic Study of Fog in San Francisco2013 · Director	Director
The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller2012 · Director	Director
(Commissioned) Portrait of Las Vegas2011 · Director	Director
The Universal Language2011 · Director, Producer, Writer	Director, Producer, Writer
Utopia in Four Movements2010 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Utopia, Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping Mall2009 · Producer, Director	Producer, Director
Clear Glasses2008 · Director	Director
Lot 63, Grave C2006 · Director	Director
N Judah 5:302004 · Director	Director
The Weather Underground2002 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Pie Fight '692000 · Director	Director
The Making of Ladies and Gentlemen, Fabulous Stains1999 · Director	Director
The Rainbow Man/John 3:161997 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
DDaisyWriter	Writer