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 ... (Producer)
- The New Clark: Bringing the Ando Experience to the Berkshires ... (Producer)
- Greg Lynn: Archaeologist of the Digital ... (Producer)
2012
- David Chipperfield: Form Matters ... (Director)
- The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY ... (Producer)
- Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity ... (Producer)
- Kenneth Frampton: A Critical Voice ... (Producer)
- The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter Zumthor ... (Director)
- Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture ... (Director)
- The Juilliard String Quartet: Keeping Beethoven Contemporary ... (Producer)
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)
- Christo: Wrapped Walk Ways ... (Director)
- Georg Baselitz: Making Art after Auschwitz and Dresden ... (Director)
- Cecil Balmond: Visionary Engineer and Architect ... (Director)
- Solid States: Concrete in Architecture and Structural Engineering ... (Director)
2008
2007
- Bernd and Hilla Becher: Typologies of Industrial Architecture ... (Director)
- Jeff Wall: Retrospective ... (Director)
- Hans Haacke: 4 Decades ... (Director)
- Vija Celmins: 4 Decades ... (Director)
- The Imaginary Solutions of Thomas Chimes ... (Director)
2006
- Brice Marden: 4 Decades ... (Director)
- Richard Meier in Rome Building a Church in the City of Churches ... (Director)
- Elizabeth Murray: 4 Decades ... (Director)
2005
- Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression ... (Producer)
- Joel Shapiro: 20 Elements ... (Director)
- Ed Ruscha: 4 Decades ... (Director)
- Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades ... (Director)
2004
- What is Minimalism? : The American Perspective 1958-1968 ... (Director)
- The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney ... (Director)
- A Day with Zaha Hadid ... (Director)
2003
- Conversations with Philip Guston ... (Producer)
- Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality ... (Director)
- Bernard Tschumi: Architect and Theorist ... (Director)
2001
- Sol LeWitt: 4 Decades ... (Producer)
- Art in our Time: Toward a New Museum of Modern Art ... (Director)
- The New Modernists: Folds Blobs + Boxes, Architecture in the Digital Era ... (Director)
2000
- Frank Gehry: An Architecture of Joy ... (Director)
1999
- Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language ... (Director)
- Victor and Sally Ganz: Discovering Eva Hesse ... (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
- Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy ... (Producer)
- Robert Morris: Retrospective ... (Director)
1993
1992
- After Modernism: The Dilemma of Influence ... (Director)
- John Hejduk: Builder of Worlds ... (Director)
1991
- Art in an Age of Mass Culture ... (Director)
1990
- Deconstructivist Architects ... (Director)
- Arata Isozaki II: International Projects ... (Director)
- Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis ... (Director)
1989
- Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects ... (Director)
1988
- 4 Artists: Robert Ryman, Eva Hesse, Bruce Nauman, Susan Rothenberg ... (Director)
- Tadao Ando ... (Director)
- Frank Gehry: The Formative Years ... (Director)
1987
- Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact ... (Producer)
1986
- Mies ... (Director)
- A Composer’s Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera ... (Director)
- Richard Meier ... (Director)
1985
- Empire City ... (Producer)
- Arata Isozaki: Early work in Japan ... (Director)
- Colin McPhee: The Lure of Asian Music ... (Director)
1984
- A New Spirit in Painting: 6 Painters of the 1980's ... (Director)
- Motherwell/Alberti ... (Director)
- Beyond Utopia: Changing Attitudes in American Architecture ... (Director)
1982
- Philip Guston: A Life Lived ... (Producer)
1981
- 14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s ... (Director)
- Pablo Picasso: The Legacy of a Genius ... (Director)
- We Were German Jews ... (Director)
1980
- Hans Bethe꞉ Prophet of Energy ... (Director)
- Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers ... (Director)
1979
- Working with Einstein ... (Director)
- Robert Rauschenberg: Retrospective ... (Producer)
1978
- Masters of Modern Sculpture Part I: The Pioneers ... (Director)
- Masters of Modern Sculpture Part III: The New World ... (Director)
- Masters of Modern Sculpture Part II: Beyond Cubism ... (Director)
1977
- Jingle Bells: RFK - 1964 ... (Director of Photography)
1976
- Artpark People ... (Director)
1975
- Claes Oldenburg: The Formative Years ... (Director)
- Roy Lichtenstein ... (Director)
1974
- Christo: Works in Progress ... (Director)
1973
- Jasper Johns: Decoy ... (Director)
- The Artist's Studio: Jean Dubuffet ... (Director)
1972
- Andy Warhol ... (Producer)
- Isamu Noguchi ... (Director)
- American Art in the 1960s ... (Director)
- The New York School ... (Director)
- Robert Motherwell: Summer of 1971 ... (Director)
- Larry Rivers ... (Producer)
1971
- New Yorkers ... (Director)
1970
- David Hockney's Diaries ... (Director)
- Scenes Seen with Allen Jones ... (Director)
- Jim Dine: London ... (Director)
1969
- Katja Mann: A Life with Thomas Mann ... (Director)
- Christo: Wrapped Coast ... (Director)
1968
- Monk in Europe ... (Director)
- Monk ... (Producer)
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)