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Christian Blackwood

b. 1942 — d. 1992 (aged 50) Berlin, Germany

Cinematographer Director

Christian Blackwood was an American film director and cinematographer. He was initially a child actor, then a cinematographer acclaimed for his work in Charlotte Zwerin's Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser. But his major work was as the director of over 80 films, mostly documentaries, over a 25-year career. His most famous films are Observations Under The Volcano and On the Set of Death of a Salesman, behind-the-scenes looks at the creation of movies by John Huston and Volker Schlöndorff from the famous novel and play. The latter film won him the grand prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Christian Blackwood died in 1992 of lung cancer. He was married to film writer, producer and fine art photographer, Carolyn Marks Blackwood. His film archives are stored in the Museum of Modern Art.

Known For

Observations Under the Volcano

Observations Under the Volcano

Signed: Lino Brocka

Signed: Lino Brocka

Motel

Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel

Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel

Filmography

Concert of Wills: Making the Getty Center

Concert of Wills: Making the Getty Center

1997 Cinematographer

Stephanie and the Madame

Mind Over Matter: 6 Conceptual Artists at the Whitney Museum

1991 Cinematographer

Art in an Age of Mass Culture

1991 Cinematographer

Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis

Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis

1990 Cinematographer

Motel

1989 Director Writer Cinematographer

Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser

Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser

1988 Cinematographer

Two Hotels in Our Troubled Middle East

1988 Director Cinematographer

Frank Gehry: The Formative Years

Frank Gehry: The Formative Years

1988 Cinematographer

Signed: Lino Brocka

Signed: Lino Brocka

1987 Director Writer Cinematographer

My Life for Zarah Leander

1986 Director Cinematographer

Nik and Murray: The Dances of Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis

1986 Director Cinematographer

American Masters

American Masters

Aznavour: Breaking America

1985 Director Writer

The Soldier's Tale

The Soldier's Tale

Observations Under the Volcano

Observations Under the Volcano

1984 Director Cinematographer

All by Myself: The Eartha Kitt Story

All by Myself: The Eartha Kitt Story

1982 Director Cinematographer

Philip Guston: A Life Lived

Philip Guston: A Life Lived

1981 Cinematographer

Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera

We Are the Average

Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush

1980 Director Cinematographer

Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel

Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel

1978 Director Cinematographer

Christo: Works in Progress

Christo: Works in Progress

1978 Cinematographer

Yesterday's Witness: A Tribute to the American Newsreel

Yesterday's Witness: A Tribute to the American Newsreel

American Art in the 1960s

American Art in the 1960s

1972 Cinematographer

Larry Rivers

1972 Cinematographer

Hollywood's Musical Moods

New Music: Sounds and Voices from the Avant-Garde, New York 1971

1972 Cinematographer

1972 Cinematographer

Robert Motherwell: Summer of 1971

Robert Motherwell: Summer of 1971

1972 Cinematographer

Jasper Johns: Decoy

1972 Cinematographer

1971 Director Cinematographer

African American Musicians and Composers

1971 Cinematographer

San Domingo

1970 Cinematographer

Sex-Business: Made in Pasing

Sex-Business: Made in Pasing

1970 Cinematographer

Summer in the City

Summer in the City

1970 Director Cinematographer

1970 Cinematographer

Scenes Seen with Allen Jones

1970 Cinematographer

David Hockney's Diaries

David Hockney's Diaries

1970 Director Cinematographer

Japan: The New Art

1970 Cinematographer

Katia Mann erzählt

Richard Lindner

1970 Cinematographer Director

Jim Dine: London

Jim Dine: London

1970 Director Cinematographer

Christo: Wrapped Coast

1969 Cinematographer

Auf der Suche nach einem Kuhstall

1969 Cinematographer

Dai Ichi - Japan-zwischen Kapital und Kollektiv

1969 Cinematographer

Katja Mann: A Life with Thomas Mann

The American Ballet Company: Eliot Feld Artistic Director

1969 Director Cinematographer

Monk

1968 Director Cinematographer

Monk in Europe

1968 Cinematographer

Hannah Arendt: On Walter Benjamin

Hannah Arendt: On Walter Benjamin

1968 Director Cinematographer

1968 Cinematographer

Hans Werner Henze: Summer of 1966

Hans Werner Henze: Summer of 1966

1967 Cinematographer

Lockenköpfchen - Die Chronik des Wilfried S. oder Wie manipuliert man die Wirklichkeit?

1967 Cinematographer

...und dann bye bye

1966 Cinematographer

Land ohne Hauptstadt - Bilder aus der deutschen Provinz

1966 Cinematographer

Not Reconciled

1965 Cinematographer

1965 Cinematographer

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