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.
Directing (106 movies)
Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language
1999
Katja Mann: A Life with Thomas Mann
1969
Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality
2003
What is Minimalism? : The American Perspective 1958-1968
2004
Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades
2005
A New Spirit in Painting: 6 Painters of the 1980's
1984
Cecil Balmond: Visionary Engineer and Architect
2009
Georg Baselitz: Making Art after Auschwitz and Dresden
2009
Frank Gehry: An Architecture of Joy
2000
The New Modernists: Folds Blobs + Boxes, Architecture in the Digital Era
2001
Claes Oldenburg: The Formative Years
1975
Louis Kahn: Silence and Light
1996
Bernard Tschumi: Architect and Theorist
2003
We Were German Jews
1981
Robert Morris: Retrospective
1994
Christo: Wrapped Coast
1969
Ed Ruscha: 4 Decades
2005
Richard Meier
1986
Robert Motherwell: Summer of 1971
1972
Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering
2011
Post Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Structural Engineering
2010
New York Dance States of Performance
2010
Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering
2008
Solid States: Concrete in Architecture and Structural Engineering
2009
Hans Haacke: 4 Decades
2007
Vija Celmins: 4 Decades
2007
The Imaginary Solutions of Thomas Chimes
2007
Brice Marden: 4 Decades
2006
Elizabeth Murray: 4 Decades
2006
Richard Meier in Rome Building a Church in the City of Churches
2006
Art in an Age of Mass Culture
1991
Pablo Picasso: The Legacy of a Genius
1981
Christo: Works in Progress
1974
Christo: Wrapped Walk Ways
2009
Artpark People
1976
David Hockney's Diaries
1970
Jim Dine: London
1970
Reclaiming the Body: Feminist Art in America
1995
Scenes Seen with Allen Jones
1970
The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney
2004
The New York School
1972
George Segal
2016
Kisho Kurokawa From Metabolism to Symbiosis
1993
John Hejduk: Builder of Worlds
1992
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: A Environmental Art Duo
1995
Arata Isozaki: Early work in Japan
1985
Steven Holl: The Body in Space
1999
Hütet eure Töchter!
1964
Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial
2009
Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy
1994
Conversations with Philip Guston
2003
Philip Guston: A Life Lived
1982
Larry Rivers
1972
Arata Isozaki II: International Projects
1990
Mies
1986
Robert Rauschenberg: Retrospective
1979
Tadao Ando
1988
Jasper Johns: Decoy
1973
Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
1990
Monk in Europe
1968
American Art in the 1960s
1972
Roy Lichtenstein
1975
New York Composers: Searching for a New Music
1996
Broadway Express
1961
Frank Gehry: The Formative Years
1988
Beyond Utopia: Changing Attitudes in American Architecture
1984
Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact
1987
Monk
1968
Jeff Wall: Retrospective
2007
Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression
2005
Empire City
1985
14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s
1981
Greg Lynn: Archaeologist of the Digital
2014
Hans Werner Henze: Summer of 1966
1967
The Artist's Studio: Carroll Dunham
2014
The New Clark: Bringing the Ando Experience to the Berkshires
2014
Kenneth Frampton: A Critical Voice
2012
Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture
2012
Sol LeWitt: 4 Decades
2001
Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity
2012
The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY
2012
The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter Zumthor
2012
The Juilliard String Quartet: Keeping Beethoven Contemporary
2012
The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros
1993
Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects
1989
David Chipperfield: Form Matters
2012
A Composer’s Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera
1986
Isamu Noguchi
1972
Masters of Modern Sculpture Part I: The Pioneers
1978
Masters of Modern Sculpture Part II: Beyond Cubism
1978
Masters of Modern Sculpture Part III: The New World
1978
Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move
1995
Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers
1980
Bernd and Hilla Becher: Typologies of Industrial Architecture
2007
The Artist's Studio: Jean Dubuffet
1973
Deconstructivist Architects
1990
A Day with Zaha Hadid
2004
After Modernism: The Dilemma of Influence
1992
Art in our Time: Toward a New Museum of Modern Art
2001
Mel Bochner: Thoughts Made Visible
1997