
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.
Credits
Newest first
George SegalDirector2016
George SegalProducer2016
Greg Lynn: Archaeologist of the DigitalProducer2014
Greg Lynn: Archaeologist of the DigitalDirector2014
The Artist's Studio: Carroll DunhamProducer2014
The Artist's Studio: Carroll DunhamDirector2014
The New Clark: Bringing the Ando Experience to the BerkshiresProducer2014
The New Clark: Bringing the Ando Experience to the BerkshiresDirector2014
The Juilliard String Quartet: Keeping Beethoven ContemporaryProducer2012
The Juilliard String Quartet: Keeping Beethoven ContemporaryDirector2012
David Chipperfield: Form MattersDirector2012
Kenneth Frampton: A Critical VoiceProducer2012
The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAYProducer2012
Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of ArchitectureDirector2012
Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of ArchitectureProducer2012
Kenneth Frampton: A Critical VoiceDirector2012
The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAYDirector2012
Lee Ufan: Marking InfinityProducer2012
Lee Ufan: Marking InfinityDirector2012
The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter ZumthorDirector2012
The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter ZumthorProducer2012
Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and EngineeringDirector2011
New York Dance States of PerformanceDirector2010
Post Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Structural EngineeringDirector2010
Georg Baselitz: Making Art after Auschwitz and DresdenDirector2009
Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust MemorialProducer2009
Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust MemorialDirector2009
Cecil Balmond: Visionary Engineer and ArchitectDirector2009
Solid States: Concrete in Architecture and Structural EngineeringDirector2009
Christo: Wrapped Walk WaysDirector2009
Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural EngineeringDirector2008
Jeff Wall: RetrospectiveDirector2007
Jeff Wall: RetrospectiveProducer2007
The Imaginary Solutions of Thomas ChimesDirector2007
Bernd and Hilla Becher: Typologies of Industrial ArchitectureDirector2007
Hans Haacke: 4 DecadesDirector2007
Vija Celmins: 4 DecadesDirector2007
Richard Meier in Rome Building a Church in the City of ChurchesDirector2006
Brice Marden: 4 DecadesDirector2006
Elizabeth Murray: 4 DecadesDirector2006
Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of RepressionProducer2005
Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of RepressionDirector2005
Gerhard Richter: 4 DecadesDirector2005
Ed Ruscha: 4 DecadesDirector2005
Joel Shapiro: 20 ElementsDirector2005- The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew BarneyDirector2004
- The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew BarneyProducer2004
What is Minimalism? : The American Perspective 1958-1968Director2004
A Day with Zaha HadidDirector2004
A Day with Zaha HadidProducer2004
Alvaro Siza: Transforming RealityDirector2003
Alvaro Siza: Transforming RealityProducer2003
Conversations with Philip GustonProducer2003
Conversations with Philip GustonDirector2003
Bernard Tschumi: Architect and TheoristDirector2003
The New Modernists: Folds Blobs + Boxes, Architecture in the Digital EraDirector2001
Sol LeWitt: 4 DecadesProducer2001
Sol LeWitt: 4 DecadesDirector2001
Art in our Time: Toward a New Museum of Modern ArtDirector2001
Frank Gehry: An Architecture of JoyDirector2000
Steven Holl: The Body in SpaceDirector1999
Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal LanguageDirector1999
Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal LanguageProducer1999
Victor and Sally Ganz: Discovering Eva HesseDirector1999
Mel Bochner: Thoughts Made VisibleDirector1997
Louis Kahn: Silence and LightDirector1996
New York Composers: Searching for a New MusicDirector1996
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: A Environmental Art DuoDirector1995- Reclaiming the Body: Feminist Art in AmericaDirector1995
Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture MoveDirector1995
Musical Outsiders: An American LegacyProducer1994
Robert Morris: RetrospectiveDirector1994
Musical Outsiders: An American LegacyDirector1994
Kisho Kurokawa From Metabolism to SymbiosisDirector1993
The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline OliverosDirector1993
John Hejduk: Builder of WorldsDirector1992
After Modernism: The Dilemma of InfluenceDirector1992
After Modernism: The Dilemma of InfluenceProducer1992
Art in an Age of Mass CultureDirector1991
Deconstructivist ArchitectsDirector1990