Michael Blackwood
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.
Crew
Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language
Director, Producer
Katja Mann: A Life with Thomas Mann
Director
Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality
Director, Producer
What is Minimalism? : The American Perspective 1958-1968
Director
Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades
Director
A New Spirit in Painting: 6 Painters of the 1980's
Director
Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy
Producer, Director
Cecil Balmond: Visionary Engineer and Architect
Director
Georg Baselitz: Making Art after Auschwitz and Dresden
Director
Frank Gehry: An Architecture of Joy
Director
The New Modernists: Folds Blobs + Boxes, Architecture in the Digital Era
Director
Claes Oldenburg: The Formative Years
Director
Louis Kahn: Silence and Light
Director
Bernard Tschumi: Architect and Theorist
Director
We Were German Jews
Director
Robert Morris: Retrospective
Director
Christo: Wrapped Coast
Director
Ed Ruscha: 4 Decades
Director
Richard Meier
Director
Robert Motherwell: Summer of 1971
Director
Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering
Director
Post Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Structural Engineering
Director
New York Dance States of Performance
Director
Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering
Director
Solid States: Concrete in Architecture and Structural Engineering
Director
Hans Haacke: 4 Decades
Director
Vija Celmins: 4 Decades
Director
The Imaginary Solutions of Thomas Chimes
Director
Brice Marden: 4 Decades
Director
Elizabeth Murray: 4 Decades
Director
Richard Meier in Rome Building a Church in the City of Churches
Director
Art in an Age of Mass Culture
Director
Pablo Picasso: The Legacy of a Genius
Director
Christo: Works in Progress
Director
Christo: Wrapped Walk Ways
Director
Artpark People
Director
David Hockney's Diaries
Director
Jim Dine: London
Director
Reclaiming the Body: Feminist Art in America
Director
Scenes Seen with Allen Jones
Director
The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney
Director, Producer
The New York School
Director
George Segal
Director, Producer
Kisho Kurokawa From Metabolism to Symbiosis
Director
John Hejduk: Builder of Worlds
Director
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: A Environmental Art Duo
Director
Working with Einstein
Director, Producer
Arata Isozaki: Early work in Japan
Director
Steven Holl: The Body in Space
Director
Hütet eure Töchter!
Director
Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial
Producer, Director
You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
Camera Operator
Conversations with Philip Guston
Director, Producer
Philip Guston: A Life Lived
Director, Producer
Larry Rivers
Director, Producer
Arata Isozaki II: International Projects
Director
Mies
Director, Producer
Robert Rauschenberg: Retrospective
Director, Producer, Writer
Tadao Ando
Director, Producer
Jasper Johns: Decoy
Director, Producer
Jingle Bells: RFK - 1964
Director of Photography
Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact
Producer, Director
Monk
Producer, Director
Broadway Express
Producer, Director of Photography, Director
Empire City
Producer, Director
Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
Director, Producer
Monk in Europe
Director
American Art in the 1960s
Director
Roy Lichtenstein
Director
New York Composers: Searching for a New Music
Director
Frank Gehry: The Formative Years
Director
Beyond Utopia: Changing Attitudes in American Architecture
Director
Andy Warhol
Producer
Jeff Wall: Retrospective
Director, Producer
Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression
Director, Producer
14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s
Director
Greg Lynn: Archaeologist of the Digital
Director, Producer
Hans Werner Henze: Summer of 1966
Director, Producer
The Artist's Studio: Carroll Dunham
Director, Producer
The New Clark: Bringing the Ando Experience to the Berkshires
Director, Producer
Kenneth Frampton: A Critical Voice
Director, Producer
Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture
Director, Producer
Sol LeWitt: 4 Decades
Director, Producer
Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity
Director, Producer
The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY
Director, Producer
The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter Zumthor
Director, Producer
The Juilliard String Quartet: Keeping Beethoven Contemporary
Director, Producer
The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros
Director
Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects
Director, Producer
David Chipperfield: Form Matters
Director
A Composer’s Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera
Director, Producer
Isamu Noguchi
Director
Masters of Modern Sculpture Part I: The Pioneers
Director
Masters of Modern Sculpture Part II: Beyond Cubism
Director
Masters of Modern Sculpture Part III: The New World
Director
Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move
Director
Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers
Director, Producer
Bernd and Hilla Becher: Typologies of Industrial Architecture
Director
The Artist's Studio: Jean Dubuffet
Director
Deconstructivist Architects
Director
A Day with Zaha Hadid
Director, Producer
After Modernism: The Dilemma of Influence
Producer, Director
Art in our Time: Toward a New Museum of Modern Art
Director
Mel Bochner: Thoughts Made Visible
Director
Victor and Sally Ganz: Discovering Eva Hesse
Director
Motherwell/Alberti
Director
New Yorkers
Director
Joel Shapiro: 20 Elements
Director
Colin McPhee: The Lure of Asian Music
Director
Hans Bethe꞉ Prophet of Energy
Director
4 Artists: Robert Ryman, Eva Hesse, Bruce Nauman, Susan Rothenberg
Director, Producer