Sam Green's '32 Sounds' Screens at Guild Hall

An immersive documentary and profound sensory experience that explores the elemental phenomenon of sound presented in “Live Cinema” form!

Guild Hall will host a screening of Sam Green’s “32 Sounds” on Thursday, August 1, at 7 p.m. Green’s film is an immersive documentary and profound sensory experience that explores the elemental phenomenon of sound.

The film is a meditation on the power of sound to bend time, cross borders and profoundly shape perception of the world. It will be presented in “live cinema” — a style that includes live performances, audio and visual effects designed to be an experience rather than just a screening. It will feature live narration by Green and will be accompanied by musical performances by J.D. Samson and Michael O’Neill.

“32 Sounds” was awarded the Outstanding Nonfiction Feature at the Cinema Eye awards in January and was featured on the Oscar prediction list in 2023.

Sam Green is a New York-based documentary filmmaker. He received his master’s in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied documentary filmmaking. Green’s most recent projects are the “live documentaries” “The Measure of All Things” (2014), “The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller” with Yo La Tengo (2012) and “Utopia in Four Movements” (2010). His performance work has screened at venues such as the Barbican, The Kitchen, TBA Festival, Fusebox Festival, Brighton Festival and many others. Green’s 2004 feature-length film, the Academy Award-nominated documentary “The Weather Underground,” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, was broadcast on PBS, was included in the 2004 Whitney Biennial, and has screened widely around the world

Tickets are $55 to $95 for nonmembers ($49.50 to $85.50 members) at guildhall.org. Guild Hall is at 158 Main Street, East Hampton.