Sam Green presents Trees

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sam Green collaborates with National Book Critics Awardee and environmentalist Rebecca Solnit for the latest of his “live cinema” experiences. In Green’s work, documentary film meets live original music with Green’s own live narration. It’s “a singular experience, and a collective one, with the potential for human connection and human errors” notes The New York Times.

Trees is a profoundly moving 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. Directed and performed by Sam Green with cinematography by Yoni Brook, and featuring actress Judi Dench, poet laureate Ada Limón, scientists, and stories from around the world, Trees marks Green’s most ambitious film yet.

Trees is produced by ArKtype and Josh Penn and supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Commissioning partners: 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