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.
Movies directed by Michael Blackwood
- The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY 2012 · ★ 3.8
- Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis 1990 · ★ 8.0
- Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression 2005 · ★ 2.0
- Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades 2005 · ★ 7.0
- Louis Kahn: Silence and Light 1996 · ★ 9.5
- Working with Einstein 1979 · ★ 7.0
- Hütet eure Töchter! 1964 · ★ 8.0
- Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy 1994 · ★ 6.0
- Monk 1968 · ★ 5.0
- Empire City 1985 · ★ 9.0
- Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture 2012 · ★ 7.0
- Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity 2012 · ★ 8.0
- Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects 1989 · ★ 10.0
- A Composer’s Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera 1986 · ★ 10.0
- Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move 1995 · ★ 7.0
- Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language 1999
- Katja Mann: A Life with Thomas Mann 1969
- Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality 2003
- What is Minimalism? : The American Perspective 1958-1968 2004
- A New Spirit in Painting: 6 Painters of the 1980's 1984
- Cecil Balmond: Visionary Engineer and Architect 2009
- Georg Baselitz: Making Art after Auschwitz and Dresden 2009
- Frank Gehry: An Architecture of Joy 2000
- The New Modernists: Folds Blobs + Boxes, Architecture in the Digital Era 2001
- Bernard Tschumi: Architect and Theorist 2003
- Claes Oldenburg: The Formative Years 1975
- We Were German Jews 1981
- Robert Morris: Retrospective 1994
- Ed Ruscha: 4 Decades 2005
- Christo: Wrapped Coast 1969
- Richard Meier 1986
- Robert Motherwell: Summer of 1971 1972
- Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering 2011
- Post Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Structural Engineering 2010
- New York Dance States of Performance 2010
- Hans Haacke: 4 Decades 2007
- Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering 2008
- Vija Celmins: 4 Decades 2007
- Solid States: Concrete in Architecture and Structural Engineering 2009
- The Imaginary Solutions of Thomas Chimes 2007