Michael Blackwood
b. 1934 — d. 2023 (aged 89)
Director
Writer
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.
Known For
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Greg Lynn: Archaeologist of the Digital
2014 Director
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The New Clark: Bringing the Ando Experience to the Berkshires
2014 Director
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The Artist's Studio: Carroll Dunham
2014 Director
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★ 7.3
The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter Zumthor
2012 Director
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David Chipperfield: Form Matters
2012 Director
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Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture
2012 Director
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The Juilliard String Quartet: Keeping Beethoven Contemporary
2012 Director
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The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY
2012 Director
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Kenneth Frampton: A Critical Voice
2012 Director
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Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity
2012 Director
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The Artist's Studio: Donald Judd
2011 Director
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Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering
2011 Director
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Two Artists: Andrea Zittel and Monika Sosnowska 1:1
2011 Director
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New York Dance: States of Performance
2010 Director
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Post Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Structural Engineering
2010 Director
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Cecil Balmond: Visionary Engineer and Architect
2009 Director
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Georg Baselitz: Making Art after Auschwitz and Dresden
2009 Director
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Germany's Cold War Cultures 1949-1989: Re-thinking the Art History of a Politically Divided Country
2009 Director
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Solid States: Concrete in Architecture and Structural Engineering
2009 Director
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Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering
2008 Director
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The Imaginary Solutions of Thomas Chimes
2007 Director
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Jeff Wall: Retrospective
2007 Director
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Hans Haacke: 4 Decades
2007 Director
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Vija Celmins: 4 Decades
2007 Director
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Bernd and Hilla Becher: 4 Decades
2007 Director
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Richard Meier in Rome: Building a Church in the City of Churches
2006 Director
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Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial
2006 Director
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Elizabeth Murray: 4 Decades
2006 Director
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Brice Marden: 4 Decades
2006 Director
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★ 6.5
Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades
2005 Director
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★ 7.0
Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression
2005 Director
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★ 7.0
Ed Ruscha: 4 Decades
2005 Director
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Joel Shapiro: 20 Elements
2005 Director
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★ 6.2
A Day with Zaha Hadid
2004 Director
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★ 6.0
What is Minimalism?: The American Perspective 1958-1968
2004 Director
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The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney
2004 Director
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Noemie Lafrance: Noir - Site Specific Choreography
2004 Director
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Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality
2004 Director
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Conversations with Philip Guston
2003 Director
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The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century
2003 Director
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Aberrant Architectures?: Diller + Scofidio at the Whitney Museum
2003 Director
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Bernard Tschumi: Architect and Theorist
2003 Director
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After September 11th: Reimagining Manhattan's Downtown
2003 Director
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Streb: Pop Action
2002 Director
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Art in our Time: Toward a New Museum of Modern Art
2001 Director
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Berlin's Jewish Museum: A Personal Tour with Daniel Libeskind
2001 Director
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Sol LeWitt: 4 Decades
2001 Director
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The New Modernists: Folds Blobs + Boxes, Architecture in the Digital Era
2001 Director
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Sally Gross: A Life in Dance
2001 Director
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★ 7.6
Frank Gehry: An Architecture of Joy
2000 Director
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★ 7.5
Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language
1999 Director
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The New Modernists: German Architecture for the 21st Century
1999 Director
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Steven Holl: The Body in Space
1999 Director
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Victor and Sally Ganz: Discovering Eva Hesse
1999 Director
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The Once and Future Pariser Platz: A Square in Berlin Comes Back
1999 Director
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Balanchine Lives!
1998 Director
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New York Composers: Searching for a New Music
1997 Director
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Mel Bochner: Thoughts Made Visible
1997 Director
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★ 8.4
Louis Kahn: Silence and Light
1996 Director
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★ 8.3
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
1995 Director
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Glen Tetley: Pierrot's Tower
1995 Director
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Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move
1995 Director
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Reclaiming the Body: Feminist Art in America
1995 Director
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★ 8.1
Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy
1994 Director
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Robert Morris: Retrospective
1994 Director
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★ 8.1
The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros
1993 Director
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Kisho Kurokawa: From Metabolism to Symbiosis
1993 Director
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The New Modernists 9: American Architects
1993 Director
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The New Modernists: 6 European Architects
1992 Director
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After Modernism: The Dilemma of Influence
1992 Director
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John Hejduk: Builder of Worlds
1992 Director
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Mind Over Matter: 6 Conceptual Artists at the Whitney Museum
1991 Director
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Art in an Age of Mass Culture
1991 Director
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★ 7.5
Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
1990 Director
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★ 8.8
Deconstructivist Architects
1990 Director
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Arata Isozaki II
1990 Director
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★ 8.0
Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects
1989 Director
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★ 7.8
Tadao Ando
1988 Director
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Retracing Steps: American Dance Since Postmodernism
1988 Director
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4 Artists: Robert Ryman, Eva Hesse, Bruce Nauman, Susan Rothenberg
1988 Director
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Frank Gehry: The Formative Years
1988 Director
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★ 7.6
Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
1987 Director
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★ 7.9
A Composer's Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera
1986 Director
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★ 7.3
Mies
1986 Director
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Stirling
1986 Director
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Richard Meier
1986 Director
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Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact
1985 Director
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★ 7.5
Empire City
1985 Director
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Colin McPhee: The Lure of Asian Music
1985 Director
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Arata Isozaki: Early work in Japan
1985 Director
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A New Spirit in Painting: 6 Painters of the 1980's
1984 Director
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★ 7.2
Beyond Utopia: Changing Attitudes in American Architecture
1983 Director
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George Kennan: A Critical Voice
1982 Director
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★ 8.2
Philip Guston: A Life Lived
1981 Director
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★ 6.6
Pablo Picasso: The Legacy of a Genius
1981 Director
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We Were German Jews
1981 Director
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Hans Bethe: Prophet of Energy
1980 Director
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George Segal
1980 Director
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14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s
1980 Director
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Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers
1980 Director