Sam Green is a New York City-based documentary filmmaker. His film The Weather Underground was nominated for an Academy Award in 2004, broadcast nationally on PBS, and included in the Whitney Biennial. Green’s most recent documentary The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller features a live score by legendary indie rock band Yo La Tengo and is currently screening widely. His other films include Utopia in Four Movements, lot 63, grave c, Utopia Part 3: the World’s Largest Shopping Mall, The Rainbow Man/John 3:16, N-Judah 5:30, and Pie Fight ’69. Green received his master’s degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied documentary with acclaimed filmmaker Marlon Riggs. He has received grants from the Creative Capital, Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations, as well as the National Endowment for the Arts.
Yo La Tengo is a critically acclaimed indie rock band from Hoboken, New Jersey. They’ve recorded twelve studio albums, written soundtracks to the films Junebug, Shortbus, and Old Joy, and provided a score for the surrealist aquatic films of Jean Painlevé. Their new album is being released in January 2013 on Matador Records.
Andrew Black is a Director of Photography whose work includes documentary and feature films. His work has been for theatrical and broadcast distribution and shown in festivals worldwide. Black worked with Michael Moore on Fahrenheit 9/11 and Sicko. He shot the Academy Award nominated The Weather Underground by Sam Green and Bill Siegel. His work airs widely, most recently on a national PBS broadcast of Mustang: Journey of Transformation, which was shot in a remote area of Nepal. He annually shoots the Emmy Award winning Global Focus, a PBS show featuring environmentalists from around the world. Based in San Francisco, California, Black travels extensively for work and has visited over 35 countries.
Credits
- Director
- Sam Green
- Music
- Georgia Hubley
- Ira Kaplan
- James McNew
- Producers
- Sam Green
- Mark Decena
- Teri Heyman
- Commissioned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Dominic Wilsdon, Curator of Education and Public Programs
- Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, Assistant Curator of Architecture and Design
- Cinematography
- Andy Black
- Editors
- Sam Green
- Dave Cerf
- Matt Notaro
- Research
- Hannah Airriess
- Sarah Cowan
- Dana Kash
- Additional Cinematography
- Theo Rigby
- Location Sound
- Nao Nakazawa
- Sound Mix
- Paul Bercovitch
- Color Correction
- Ayumi Ashley
- Production Assistance
- Bill Pope
- Design
- Familiar
- Footage Clearance
- Anne Bast
- Live Sound-Mixing
- Mark Luecke
- Special Thanks
- Dave Cerf
- Peter Chermayeff
- Allegra Fuller-Snyder
- Kat Galasso
- Kirk Simon
- Jaime Snyder
- Roberto Trujillo
- Sean Uyehara
- Funding
- The Drumsticks Foundation
- Kontent Films
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- The Whitman Institute
- Support
- The Buckminster Fuller Institute
- Spy Post
- video preservation of “Over Easy” Bay Area Video Coalition
- Thanks
- Gina Basso
- Robert Chehoscki
- Hsaio-Yun chu
- Paul Clipson
- Aiko Cuneo
- Suzanne Despres
- John Ferry
- Andrew Herkovic
- Emily Hubley
- Carrie Lozano
- David McConville
- Frank Smiegel
- Rebecca Solnit
- Mattie Taormina
- Fred Turner
- Moriah Ulinskas
- Footage/Images
- Special thanks to Masters and Masterworks Productions, Inc. for use of footage from: “The World of Buckminster Fuller” and “Ruth Asawa: Of Forms and Growth.” www.mastersmasterworks.com
- Ant Farm
- Stewart Brand
- Larry Brownback
- The Buckminster Fuller Estate
- Laurence Cuneo
- Lloyd Kahn
- KQED
- Life Magazine
- Bruce Sherman
- Stanford University, Special Collections
- Victor Wong
- The Whole Earth Catalog
- footage from “Design for a Fair” courtesy of Peter Chermayeff
- footage from “Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud,” courtesy of Kirk Simon
- Buckminster Fuller’s works copyright The Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller. Used with permission.
- R. Buckminster Fuller papers, M1090. Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
- footage from “a Necessary Ruin: The Story of Buckminster Fuller and the Union Tank Car Dome” courtesy of Evan Mather.