
Sam Green
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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.
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32 Sounds (2023)
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The Weather Underground (2002)
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The Making of Ladies and Gentlemen, Fabulous Stains (1999)
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The Oldest Person in the World (2026)
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The Universal Language (2011)
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Julius Caesar Was Buried in a Pet Cemetery (2018)
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The Measure of All Things (2014)
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Annea Lockwood: A Film About Listening (2021)
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This is What the Future Looked Like (2017)
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Pie Fight '69 (2000)
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Love Letter to the Fog (2013)
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N Judah 5:30 (2004)
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Utopia, Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping Mall (2009)
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7 Sounds (2020)
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Lot 63, Grave C (2006)
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Utopia in Four Movements (2010)
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Clear Glasses (2008)
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The Rainbow Man/John 3:16 (1997)
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A Thousand Thoughts (2018)
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The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller (2012)
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(Commissioned) Portrait of Las Vegas (2011)
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Don’t Call Me Gay Zelig (2019)
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A Cinematic Study of Fog in San Francisco (2013)
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