The Love Song of R Buckminster Fuller

The Love Song of R Buckminster Fuller traces the career of twentiethcentury futurist architect engineer inventor and author R Buckminster Fuller 18951983 An early proponent of environmental stewardship Fuller spoke persuasively about contemporary design and architectures ability to tackle issues of sustainability and conservation and to stimulate radical societal change At every screening Green narrates the film in person and cues images from a laptop while Yo La Tengo performs their original score The performance is a followup to Greens internationallyacclaimed live film Utopia in Four Movements which premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival This new work features the same unique combination of film clips and live music as Greens in person cinematic narration draws inspiration equally from old travelogues the Benshi tradition and TED talks