Sam Green and Kronos Quartet

The Wexner Center will be a co-commissioning partner on a multidisciplinary collaboration between Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Sam Green and the celebrated ensemble Kronos Quartet. The project, Untitled Kronos Project (temporary title), will be a “live documentary” (and the first-ever documentary about the group) that takes an expansive exploration of form as it tells the story of the ensemble’s 40-plus years of history through live narration, archival footage, interviews, and live music performed by the quartet. The work will have its US premiere at the center on January 25, 2018, and will go on to tour extensively as part of the Kronos Quartet’s 45th anniversary. This residency award will also support research and development on a second film by Green, The Oldest Person in the World, a documentary that will track individuals over a period of years who carry the title of oldest person in the world. The film grew out of one of the subjects featured in Green’s film on world record holders, The Measure of All Things (which screened at the center in 2014).

Green is no stranger to the Wexner Center, having worked frequently in its Film/Video Studio Program and visited many times to present his work, including The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller(with Yo La Tengo) and Utopia in Four Movements. This is his second residency award.