Michael Blackwood
Known For: Directing
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
2016
- George Segal ... (Director)
2014
- The Artist's Studio: Carroll Dunham ... (Director)
- The New Clark: Bringing the Ando Experience to the Berkshires ... (Director)
- Greg Lynn: Archaeologist of the Digital ... (Director)
2012
- The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY ... (Producer)
- Kenneth Frampton: A Critical Voice ... (Producer)
- Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity ... (Director)
- David Chipperfield: Form Matters ... (Director)
- The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter Zumthor ... (Director)
- The Juilliard String Quartet: Keeping Beethoven Contemporary ... (Director)
- Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture ... (Director)
2011
- Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering ... (Director)
2010
- Post Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Structural Engineering ... (Director)
- New York Dance States of Performance ... (Director)
2009
- Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial ... (Producer)
- Cecil Balmond: Visionary Engineer and Architect ... (Director)
- Christo: Wrapped Walk Ways ... (Director)
- Georg Baselitz: Making Art after Auschwitz and Dresden ... (Director)
- Solid States: Concrete in Architecture and Structural Engineering ... (Director)
2008
2007
- Jeff Wall: Retrospective ... (Director)
- The Imaginary Solutions of Thomas Chimes ... (Director)
- Hans Haacke: 4 Decades ... (Director)
- Bernd and Hilla Becher: Typologies of Industrial Architecture ... (Director)
- Vija Celmins: 4 Decades ... (Director)
2006
- Brice Marden: 4 Decades ... (Director)
- Elizabeth Murray: 4 Decades ... (Director)
- Richard Meier in Rome Building a Church in the City of Churches ... (Director)
2005
- Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression ... (Director)
- Ed Ruscha: 4 Decades ... (Director)
- Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades ... (Director)
- Joel Shapiro: 20 Elements ... (Director)
2004
- A Day with Zaha Hadid ... (Director)
- The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney ... (Director)
- What is Minimalism? : The American Perspective 1958-1968 ... (Director)
2003
- Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality ... (Producer)
- Bernard Tschumi: Architect and Theorist ... (Director)
- Conversations with Philip Guston ... (Producer)
2001
- The New Modernists: Folds Blobs + Boxes, Architecture in the Digital Era ... (Director)
- Sol LeWitt: 4 Decades ... (Director)
- Art in our Time: Toward a New Museum of Modern Art ... (Director)
2000
- Frank Gehry: An Architecture of Joy ... (Director)
1999
- Victor and Sally Ganz: Discovering Eva Hesse ... (Director)
- Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language ... (Director)
- Steven Holl: The Body in Space ... (Director)
1997
- Mel Bochner: Thoughts Made Visible ... (Director)
1996
- Louis Kahn: Silence and Light ... (Director)
- New York Composers: Searching for a New Music ... (Director)
1995
- Christo and Jeanne-Claude: A Environmental Art Duo ... (Director)
- Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move ... (Director)
- Reclaiming the Body: Feminist Art in America ... (Director)
1994
- Robert Morris: Retrospective ... (Director)
- Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy ... (Producer)
1993
1992
- John Hejduk: Builder of Worlds ... (Director)
- After Modernism: The Dilemma of Influence ... (Producer)
1991
- Art in an Age of Mass Culture ... (Director)
1990
- Arata Isozaki II: International Projects ... (Director)
- Deconstructivist Architects ... (Director)
- Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis ... (Director)
1989
- Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects ... (Director)
1988
- Tadao Ando ... (Director)
- Frank Gehry: The Formative Years ... (Director)
- 4 Artists: Robert Ryman, Eva Hesse, Bruce Nauman, Susan Rothenberg ... (Director)
1987
- Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact ... (Producer)
1986
- Mies ... (Director)
- Richard Meier ... (Director)
- A Composer’s Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera ... (Director)
1985
- Empire City ... (Producer)
- Arata Isozaki: Early work in Japan ... (Director)
- Colin McPhee: The Lure of Asian Music ... (Director)
1984
- Motherwell/Alberti ... (Director)
- A New Spirit in Painting: 6 Painters of the 1980's ... (Director)
- Beyond Utopia: Changing Attitudes in American Architecture ... (Director)
1982
- Philip Guston: A Life Lived ... (Producer)
1981
- 14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s ... (Director)
- We Were German Jews ... (Director)
- Pablo Picasso: The Legacy of a Genius ... (Director)
1980
- Hans Bethe꞉ Prophet of Energy ... (Director)
- Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers ... (Director)
1979
- Working with Einstein ... (Director)
- Robert Rauschenberg: Retrospective ... (Director)
1978
- Masters of Modern Sculpture Part III: The New World ... (Director)
- Masters of Modern Sculpture Part I: The Pioneers ... (Director)
- Masters of Modern Sculpture Part II: Beyond Cubism ... (Director)
1977
- Jingle Bells: RFK - 1964 ... (Director of Photography)
1976
- Artpark People ... (Director)
1975
- Roy Lichtenstein ... (Director)
- Claes Oldenburg: The Formative Years ... (Director)
1974
- Christo: Works in Progress ... (Director)
1973
- Jasper Johns: Decoy ... (Director)
- The Artist's Studio: Jean Dubuffet ... (Director)
1972
- Robert Motherwell: Summer of 1971 ... (Director)
- Andy Warhol ... (Producer)
- American Art in the 1960s ... (Director)
- The New York School ... (Director)
- Larry Rivers ... (Director)
- Isamu Noguchi ... (Director)
1971
- New Yorkers ... (Director)
1970
- Scenes Seen with Allen Jones ... (Director)
- David Hockney's Diaries ... (Director)
- Jim Dine: London ... (Director)
1969
- Katja Mann: A Life with Thomas Mann ... (Director)
- Christo: Wrapped Coast ... (Director)
1968
- Monk ... (Producer)
- Monk in Europe ... (Director)
1967
- Hans Werner Henze: Summer of 1966 ... (Director)
1964
- You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You ... (Camera Operator)
- Hütet eure Töchter! ... (Director)
1961
- Broadway Express ... (Producer)