Michael Blackwood

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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.

Film	Credit
George Segal2016 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Greg Lynn: Archaeologist of the Digital2014 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
The Artist's Studio: Carroll Dunham2014 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
The New Clark: Bringing the Ando Experience to the Berkshires2014 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
The Juilliard String Quartet: Keeping Beethoven Contemporary2012 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
David Chipperfield: Form Matters2012 · Director	Director
Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture2012 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Kenneth Frampton: A Critical Voice2012 · Producer, Director	Producer, Director
Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity2012 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY2012 · Producer, Director	Producer, Director
The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter Zumthor2012 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering2011 · Director	Director
New York Dance States of Performance2010 · Director	Director
Post Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Structural Engineering2010 · Director	Director
Georg Baselitz: Making Art after Auschwitz and Dresden2009 · Director	Director
Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial2009 · Producer, Director	Producer, Director
Cecil Balmond: Visionary Engineer and Architect2009 · Director	Director
Solid States: Concrete in Architecture and Structural Engineering2009 · Director	Director
Christo: Wrapped Walk Ways2009 · Director	Director
Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering2008 · Director	Director
Jeff Wall: Retrospective2007 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
The Imaginary Solutions of Thomas Chimes2007 · Director	Director
Bernd and Hilla Becher: Typologies of Industrial Architecture2007 · Director	Director
Vija Celmins: 4 Decades2007 · Director	Director
Hans Haacke: 4 Decades2007 · Director	Director
Richard Meier in Rome Building a Church in the City of Churches2006 · Director	Director
Brice Marden: 4 Decades2006 · Director	Director
Elizabeth Murray: 4 Decades2006 · Director	Director
Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression2005 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades2005 · Director	Director
Ed Ruscha: 4 Decades2005 · Director	Director
Joel Shapiro: 20 Elements2005 · Director	Director
TThe Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney2004 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
What is Minimalism? : The American Perspective 1958-19682004 · Director	Director
A Day with Zaha Hadid2004 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality2003 · Producer, Director	Producer, Director
Conversations with Philip Guston2003 · Producer, Director	Producer, Director
Bernard Tschumi: Architect and Theorist2003 · Director	Director
The New Modernists: Folds Blobs + Boxes, Architecture in the Digital Era2001 · Director	Director
Sol LeWitt: 4 Decades2001 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Art in our Time: Toward a New Museum of Modern Art2001 · Director	Director
Frank Gehry: An Architecture of Joy2000 · Director	Director
Steven Holl: The Body in Space1999 · Director	Director
Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language1999 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Victor and Sally Ganz: Discovering Eva Hesse1999 · Director	Director
Mel Bochner: Thoughts Made Visible1997 · Director	Director
Louis Kahn: Silence and Light1996 · Director	Director
New York Composers: Searching for a New Music1996 · Director	Director
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: A Environmental Art Duo1995 · Director	Director
RReclaiming the Body: Feminist Art in America1995 · Director	Director
Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move1995 · Director	Director
Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy1994 · Producer, Director	Producer, Director
Robert Morris: Retrospective1994 · Director	Director
Kisho Kurokawa From Metabolism to Symbiosis1993 · Director	Director
The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros1993 · Director	Director
John Hejduk: Builder of Worlds1992 · Director	Director
After Modernism: The Dilemma of Influence1992 · Producer, Director	Producer, Director
Art in an Age of Mass Culture1991 · Director	Director
Deconstructivist Architects1990 · Director	Director
Arata Isozaki II: International Projects1990 · Director	Director
Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis1990 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects1989 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Frank Gehry: The Formative Years1988 · Director	Director
Tadao Ando1988 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
4 Artists: Robert Ryman, Eva Hesse, Bruce Nauman, Susan Rothenberg1988 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact1987 · Producer, Director	Producer, Director
A Composer’s Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera1986 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Richard Meier1986 · Director	Director
Mies1986 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Arata Isozaki: Early work in Japan1985 · Director	Director
Empire City1985 · Producer, Director	Producer, Director
Colin McPhee: The Lure of Asian Music1985 · Director	Director
A New Spirit in Painting: 6 Painters of the 1980's1984 · Director	Director
Beyond Utopia: Changing Attitudes in American Architecture1984 · Director	Director
Motherwell/Alberti1984 · Director	Director
Philip Guston: A Life Lived1982 · Producer, Director	Producer, Director
We Were German Jews1981 · Director	Director
14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s1981 · Director	Director
Pablo Picasso: The Legacy of a Genius1981 · Director	Director
Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers1980 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Hans Bethe꞉ Prophet of Energy1980 · Director	Director
Robert Rauschenberg: Retrospective1979 · Director, Producer, Writer	Director, Producer, Writer
Working with Einstein1979 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Masters of Modern Sculpture Part III: The New World1978 · Director	Director
Masters of Modern Sculpture Part II: Beyond Cubism1978 · Director	Director
Masters of Modern Sculpture Part I: The Pioneers1978 · Director	Director
Artpark People1976 · Director	Director
Claes Oldenburg: The Formative Years1975 · Director	Director
Roy Lichtenstein1975 · Director	Director
Christo: Works in Progress1974 · Director	Director
The Artist's Studio: Jean Dubuffet1973 · Director	Director
Jasper Johns: Decoy1973 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Isamu Noguchi1972 · Director	Director
Robert Motherwell: Summer of 19711972 · Director	Director
The New York School1972 · Director	Director
Larry Rivers1972 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
American Art in the 1960s1972 · Director	Director
NNew Yorkers1971 · Director	Director
David Hockney's Diaries1970 · Director	Director
Jim Dine: London1970 · Director	Director
Scenes Seen with Allen Jones1970 · Director	Director
Katja Mann: A Life with Thomas Mann1969 · Director	Director
Christo: Wrapped Coast1969 · Director	Director
Monk1968 · Producer, Director	Producer, Director
Monk in Europe1968 · Director	Director
Hans Werner Henze: Summer of 19661967 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Hütet eure Töchter!1964 · Director	Director
Broadway Express1961 · Producer, Director of Photography, Director	Producer, Director of Photography, Director