Sam Green
Directing
Sam Green (born in 1966; East Lansing) is an American documentary filmmaker. His most recent projects are ālive documentariesā 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.
Behind the camera
2026The Oldest Person in the World
Director
202332 Sounds
Director
2021Annea Lockwood: A Film About Listening
Director
20207 Sounds
Director
2019Donāt Call Me Gay Zelig
Director
2019And with Him Came the West
Writer
2018Julius Caesar Was Buried in a Pet Cemetery
Director & Writer
2018A Thousand Thoughts
Director & Writer
2017This is What the Future Looked Like
Director
2014The Measure of All Things
Director
2013A Cinematic Study of Fog in San Francisco
Director
2012The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller
Director
2011The Universal Language
Director & Writer
2011(Commissioned) Portrait of Las Vegas
Director
2010Utopia in Four Movements
Director
2009Utopia, Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping Mall
Director
2008Clear Glasses
Director
2006Lot 63, Grave C
Director
2004N Judah 5:30
Director
2002The Weather Underground
Director
2000Pie Fight '69
Director
1999The Making of Ladies and Gentlemen, Fabulous Stains
Director
1997The Rainbow Man/John 3:16
Director & Writer