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Michael Blackwood

Known for: Directing

Biography: 1934-01-01 (90 years old)

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.

Filmography

all 106

Movies 106

Director 100

Michael Blackwood

Biography

Filmography

all 106

Movies 106

Director 100

Producer 5

George Segal (2016)

Greg Lynn: Archaeologist of the Digital (2014)

The Artist's Studio: Carroll Dunham (2014)

The New Clark: Bringing the Ando Experience to the Berkshires (2014)

The Juilliard String Quartet: Keeping Beethoven Contemporary (2012)

David Chipperfield: Form Matters (2012)

The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY (2012)

The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter Zumthor (2012)

Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture (2012)

Kenneth Frampton: A Critical Voice (2012)

Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity (2012)

Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering (2011)

Nakagin Capsule Tower: Japanese Metabolist Landmark on the Edge of Destruction (2010)

New York Dance States of Performance (2010)

Post Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Structural Engineering (2010)

Georg Baselitz: Making Art after Auschwitz and Dresden (2009)

Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial (2009)

Cecil Balmond: Visionary Engineer and Architect (2009)

Solid States: Concrete in Architecture and Structural Engineering (2009)

Christo: Wrapped Walk Ways (2009)

Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering (2008)

Jeff Wall: Retrospective (2007)

The Imaginary Solutions of Thomas Chimes (2007)

Bernd and Hilla Becher: Typologies of Industrial Architecture (2007)

Vija Celmins: 4 Decades (2007)

Hans Haacke: 4 Decades (2007)

Richard Meier in Rome Building a Church in the City of Churches (2006)

Brice Marden: 4 Decades (2006)

Elizabeth Murray: 4 Decades (2006)

Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression (2005)

Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades (2005)

Ed Ruscha: 4 Decades (2005)

The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney (2004)

A Day with Zaha Hadid (2004)

What is Minimalism? : The American Perspective 1958-1968 (2004)

Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality (2003)

Conversations with Philip Guston (2003)

Bernard Tschumi: Architect and Theorist (2003)

The New Modernists: Folds Blobs + Boxes, Architecture in the Digital Era (2001)

Sol LeWitt: 4 Decades (2001)

Frank Gehry: An Architecture of Joy (2000)

Steven Holl: The Body in Space (1999)

Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language (1999)

Louis Kahn: Silence and Light (1996)

New York Composers: Searching for a New Music (1996)

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: A Environmental Art Duo (1995)

Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move (1995)

Reclaiming the Body: Feminist Art in America (1995)

Robert Morris: Retrospective (1994)

Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy (1994)

Kisho Kurokawa From Metabolism to Symbiosis (1993)

The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros (1993)

John Hejduk: Builder of Worlds (1992)

After Modernism: The Dilemma of Influence (1992)

Art in an Age of Mass Culture (1991)

Deconstructivist Architects (1990)

Arata Isozaki II: International Projects (1990)

Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis (1990)

Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects (1989)

Frank Gehry: The Formative Years (1988)

Tadao Ando (1988)

Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact (1987)

Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown (1987)

A Composer’s Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera (1986)

Ralph Erskine (1986)

Richard Meier (1986)

Mies (1986)

Arata Isozaki: Early work in Japan (1985)

Empire City (1985)

A New Spirit in Painting: 6 Painters of the 1980's (1984)

Beyond Utopia: Changing Attitudes in American Architecture (1984)

Philip Guston: A Life Lived (1982)

We Were German Jews (1981)

Known For
Directing

Gender
Male

Birthday
1934-01-01 (90 years old)