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Michael Blackwood
Biography
Michael Blackwood Productions is an independent production company that has produced over 150 documentaries on the arts and its contributors, with a focus on architecture and architects, art and artists, dance and choreographers, and music and composers. The collection features over 1,000 participants or subjects, and spans over six decades of documentation, beginning in the 1960s and including earlier material, through the second decade of the 21st Century. The films serve as primary documents for educational and archival purposes, as well as informative and special interest pieces for the general public. A growing number of educational institutions, libraries, museums and various media outlets are acquiring the films around the world. The company is dedicated to preserving the underlying material, and digitizing its analogue portfolio. The collection itself is one of the largest and most significant of its kind.
Directed Movies (105)
George Segal

Greg Lynn: Archaeologist of the Digital

The Artist's Studio: Carroll Dunham
The New Clark: Bringing the Ando Experience to the Berkshires

The Juilliard String Quartet: Keeping Beethoven Contemporary

David Chipperfield: Form Matters
Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture

Kenneth Frampton: A Critical Voice
Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity

The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY

The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter Zumthor
Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering
New York Dance States of Performance
Post Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Structural Engineering
Georg Baselitz: Making Art after Auschwitz and Dresden
Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial
Cecil Balmond: Visionary Engineer and Architect
Solid States: Concrete in Architecture and Structural Engineering
Christo: Wrapped Walk Ways
Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering

Jeff Wall: Retrospective
The Imaginary Solutions of Thomas Chimes

Bernd and Hilla Becher: Typologies of Industrial Architecture

Vija Celmins: 4 Decades

Hans Haacke: 4 Decades
Richard Meier in Rome Building a Church in the City of Churches

Brice Marden: 4 Decades
Elizabeth Murray: 4 Decades
Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression
Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades
Ed Ruscha: 4 Decades
Joel Shapiro: 20 Elements
What is Minimalism? : The American Perspective 1958-1968
A Day with Zaha Hadid
Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality

Conversations with Philip Guston
Bernard Tschumi: Architect and Theorist
The New Modernists: Folds Blobs + Boxes, Architecture in the Digital Era
Sol LeWitt: 4 Decades
Art in our Time: Toward a New Museum of Modern Art
Frank Gehry: An Architecture of Joy
Steven Holl: The Body in Space

Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language
Victor and Sally Ganz: Discovering Eva Hesse
Mel Bochner: Thoughts Made Visible

Louis Kahn: Silence and Light
New York Composers: Searching for a New Music
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: A Environmental Art Duo
Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move
Robert Morris: Retrospective
Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy
Kisho Kurokawa From Metabolism to Symbiosis
The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros
John Hejduk: Builder of Worlds
After Modernism: The Dilemma of Influence

Art in an Age of Mass Culture
Deconstructivist Architects
Arata Isozaki II: International Projects

Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects
Frank Gehry: The Formative Years

Tadao Ando
4 Artists: Robert Ryman, Eva Hesse, Bruce Nauman, Susan Rothenberg
Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact
A Composer’s Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera

Richard Meier
Mies
Arata Isozaki: Early work in Japan

Empire City
Colin McPhee: The Lure of Asian Music
A New Spirit in Painting: 6 Painters of the 1980's
Beyond Utopia: Changing Attitudes in American Architecture
Motherwell/Alberti
Philip Guston: A Life Lived
We Were German Jews
14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s
Pablo Picasso: The Legacy of a Genius

Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers

Hans Bethe꞉ Prophet of Energy

Robert Rauschenberg: Retrospective
Working with Einstein
Masters of Modern Sculpture Part III: The New World
Masters of Modern Sculpture Part II: Beyond Cubism
Masters of Modern Sculpture Part I: The Pioneers
Artpark People
Claes Oldenburg: The Formative Years
Roy Lichtenstein
Christo: Works in Progress
The Artist's Studio: Jean Dubuffet

Jasper Johns: Decoy
Isamu Noguchi
Robert Motherwell: Summer of 1971
The New York School
Larry Rivers

American Art in the 1960s
David Hockney's Diaries
Jim Dine: London
Scenes Seen with Allen Jones

Katja Mann: A Life with Thomas Mann

Christo: Wrapped Coast
Monk in Europe

Monk
Hans Werner Henze: Summer of 1966
