Discipline: Film/Video – documentary

Sam Green

Discipline: Film/Video – documentary
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011
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Sam Green is a New York-based documentary filmmaker. He received his master’s degree in journalism from University of California Berkeley, where he studied documentary with acclaimed filmmaker Marlon Riggs. Green’s most recent projects are “live documentaries” including 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. With all of these works, Green narrates the film in-person while musicians perform a live soundtrack.

Studios

Monday Music

Sam Green worked in the Monday Music studio.

Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…

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