Sam Green: WHAT WE NEED IS THE IMPOSSIBLE!

WHAT WE NEED IS THE IMPOSSIBLE!
An evening of short films by Acad­emy Award-nominated film­maker Sam Green.

80 min­utes with Sam Green in attendance

still from “lot 63, grave c”

Sam Green (THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND) has been mak­ing award-winning short doc­u­men­taries since the late 1990s. This pro­gram gath­ers together for the first time an evening length pro­gram of Green’s short films, rang­ing from a por­trait of the world’s largest shop­ping mall in South­ern China, which is actu­ally com­pletely empty (UTOPIA PT 3), to an elegy for Mered­ith Hunter, the young man who was killed by Hells Angels at the noto­ri­ous 1969 Alta­mont con­cert (lot 63, grave c). Other films from the pro­gram include: THE FABULOUS STAINS: BEHIND THE MOVIE, the remark­able story of the cult film directed by Lou Adler in 1982. And Green’s new film THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE is a por­trait of Esperanto, an arti­fi­cial lan­guage that was cre­ated in the late 1800s with the hope of cre­at­ing world peace, and the world­wide move­ment of peo­ple who still speak it. Run­ning through Green’s films is a cel­e­bra­tion of ide­al­ism and the search for mean­ing along with the often humor­ous real­i­ties of human folly.

CLEAR GLASSES

some pre­vi­ous screen­ings of Green’s films:
Ann Arbor Film Fes­ti­val
Aurora Pic­ture Show
Cin­eVe­gas
ICA Boston
IDFA
The Kitchen, NY
Locarno Film Fes­ti­val
Lon­don Film Fes­ti­val
Los Ange­les Film Fes­ti­val
PDX
San Fran­cisco Film Fes­ti­val
Seat­tle Film Fes­ti­val
Sil­ver­docs
Sun­dance
True/False
Walker Art Museum
Wexner Cen­ter for the Arts

PIE FIGHT ’69

THE PROGRAM (80 min)
Utopia Part 3: the World’s Largest Shop­ping Mall – 13:08, 2009
Pie Fight ’69 – 8:03, 2000
The Fab­u­lous Stains: Behind the Movie – 11:00, 1999
lot 63, grave c – 9:47, 2006
N-Judah 5:30 – 3:18, 2004
Clear Glasses – 4:13, 2008
The Uni­ver­sal Lan­guage – 30:00, 2011

THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE

Sam Green is a San Francisco-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 UTOPIA IN FOUR MOVEMENTS pre­miered at the 2010 Sun­dance Film Fes­ti­val and is cur­rently screen­ing widely.

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.

Offi­cial Site: http://samgreen.to/

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