Sam Green
Photoplayd Industry Rating
Not enough rated films yet to compute a weighted score.
Roles are weighted by involvement: director 1.0, screenwriter 0.7, lead 0.8, supporting 0.4, crew 0.1.
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
Credits
32 Sounds (2023)
Director
The Making of Ladies and Gentlemen, Fabulous Stains (1999)
Director
The Oldest Person in the World (2026)
Director
The Weather Underground (2002)
Director
Clear Glasses (2008)
Director
A Thousand Thoughts (2018)
Director
7 Sounds (2020)
Director
Annea Lockwood: A Film About Listening (2021)
Director
Julius Caesar Was Buried in a Pet Cemetery (2018)
Director
This is What the Future Looked Like (2017)
Director
A Cinematic Study of Fog in San Francisco (2013)
Director
The Universal Language (2011)
Director
Utopia, Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping Mall (2009)
Director
Utopia in Four Movements (2010)
Director
Lot 63, Grave C (2006)
Director
Love Letter to the Fog (2013)
Director
N Judah 5:30 (2004)
Director
Don’t Call Me Gay Zelig (2019)
Director
The Measure of All Things (2014)
Director
(Commissioned) Portrait of Las Vegas (2011)
Director
Pie Fight '69 (2000)
Director
The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller (2012)
Director
The Rainbow Man/John 3:16 (1997)
Director