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A decade-long global journey chronicles the ever-changing record holders of the title of oldest person alive. What begins as a portrait of longevity becomes a meditation on the passage of time, the randomness of fate, and the joy and profound human experience of being alive.
+ MoreA decade-long global journey chronicles the ever-changing record holders of the title of oldest person alive. What begins as a portrait of longevity becomes a meditation on the passage of time, the randomness of fate, and the joy and profound human experience of being alive.
The oldest human being on the planet is not someone you encounter suddenly, nor someone you know for long. As the years go by, and Sam Green meets the next, and the next, oldest person in the world, his personal fascination with what the title means becomes entangled with his own experience of time, and the joys and pains of his own life. Green’s work has been a cornerstone of documentary filmmaking for a generation of artists. With one of his most intimate films yet, he returns to the Sundance Film Festival with his unique mixture of wry wit, earnest feeling, and formal play. In The Oldest Person in the World, the profound and silly experience of being alive is articulated in a way only film can do. — SS
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Sam Green
Alison Byrne Fields
Josh Penn
Alex Turtletaub
Jennifer J Pritzker
Maida Lynn
Julie Parker Benello
Jenifer Westphal
Marni Grossman
Roman Nesis
Nina Fialkow
Aaron Wickenden
Sam Green
Yoni Brook
William Ryan Fritch
T. Griffin
Serenade
Aggregate
Department of Motion Pictures
Beachside
Cedar Road Productions
Facet
Wavelength
Secret Sauce Media
Free History Project
Alison Byrne Fields
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Sam Green’s documentaries include 32 Sounds, A Thousand Thoughts, The Measure of All Things, The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller, and Utopia in Four Movements. Green’s The Weather Underground premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, received an Academy Award nomination, and was included in the Whitney Biennial.
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