Sam Green & Yo La Tengo: Trees
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Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Sam Green joins forces with one of rock’s foremost innovators Yo La Tengo and National Book Critics Awardee and environmentalist Rebecca Solnit in the latest of his singular yet collective live cinema experiences.
In Green’s works, documentary film meets live original scores with Green’s own live narration. Trees is a profoundly moving, “unique and ephemeral” (The New York Times) study of humankind’s relationship to our Earthly cohabitants, the silent witnesses to all of humanity across countless events and generations, putting humanity’s place into perspective. Featuring actress Judi Dench, Poet Laureate Ada Limon, scientists and stories from around the world, Trees marks Green’s most ambitious film yet.
Trees
Directed & Performed by Sam Green
Written by Sam Green & Rebecca Solnit
Composed and Performed by Yo La Tengo
Produced by ArKtype & Josh Penn
Cinematography by Yoni Brook
Edited by Gabriel Rhodes
Commissioned by The Boston Symphony Orchestra; New World Symphony; Oregon Symphony Orchestra; Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; Wiener Festwochen; Barbican Centre; Holland Festival; Stanford Live @ Stanford University; Duke Arts @ Duke University, Durham, NC; The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi; Green Music Center of Sonoma State University; and Arizona Arts Live at University of Arizona. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
In Green’s works, documentary film meets live original scores with Green’s own live narration. Trees is a profoundly moving, “unique and ephemeral” (The New York Times) study of humankind’s relationship to our Earthly cohabitants, the silent witnesses to all of humanity across countless events and generations, putting humanity’s place into perspective. Featuring actress Judi Dench, Poet Laureate Ada Limon, scientists and stories from around the world, Trees marks Green’s most ambitious film yet.
Trees
Directed & Performed by Sam Green
Written by Sam Green & Rebecca Solnit
Composed and Performed by Yo La Tengo
Produced by ArKtype & Josh Penn
Cinematography by Yoni Brook
Edited by Gabriel Rhodes
Commissioned by The Boston Symphony Orchestra; New World Symphony; Oregon Symphony Orchestra; Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; Wiener Festwochen; Barbican Centre; Holland Festival; Stanford Live @ Stanford University; Duke Arts @ Duke University, Durham, NC; The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi; Green Music Center of Sonoma State University; and Arizona Arts Live at University of Arizona. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
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