Michael Blackwood
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- July 15, 1934
- Died
- February 24, 2023 (aged 88)
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.
Known For
The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY
Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression
Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades
Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy
Louis Kahn: Silence and Light
Working with Einstein
Hütet eure Töchter!
Monk
Empire City
Andy Warhol
Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture
Filmography
George Segal
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Greg Lynn: Archaeologist of the Digital
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The Artist's Studio: Carroll Dunham
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The New Clark: Bringing the Ando Experience to the Berkshires
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Kenneth Frampton: A Critical Voice
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Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture
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Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity
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The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY
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The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter Zumthor
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The Juilliard String Quartet: Keeping Beethoven Contemporary
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David Chipperfield: Form Matters
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Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering
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Post Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Structural Engineering
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New York Dance States of Performance
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Cecil Balmond: Visionary Engineer and Architect
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Georg Baselitz: Making Art after Auschwitz and Dresden
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Solid States: Concrete in Architecture and Structural Engineering
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Christo: Wrapped Walk Ways
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Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial
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Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering
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Hans Haacke: 4 Decades
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Vija Celmins: 4 Decades
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The Imaginary Solutions of Thomas Chimes
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Jeff Wall: Retrospective
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Bernd and Hilla Becher: Typologies of Industrial Architecture
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Brice Marden: 4 Decades
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Elizabeth Murray: 4 Decades
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Richard Meier in Rome Building a Church in the City of Churches
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Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades
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Ed Ruscha: 4 Decades
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Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression
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Joel Shapiro: 20 Elements
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What is Minimalism? : The American Perspective 1958-1968
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The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney
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A Day with Zaha Hadid
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Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality
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Bernard Tschumi: Architect and Theorist
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Conversations with Philip Guston
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The New Modernists: Folds Blobs + Boxes, Architecture in the Digital Era
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Sol LeWitt: 4 Decades
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Art in our Time: Toward a New Museum of Modern Art
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Frank Gehry: An Architecture of Joy
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Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language
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Steven Holl: The Body in Space
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Victor and Sally Ganz: Discovering Eva Hesse
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Mel Bochner: Thoughts Made Visible
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Louis Kahn: Silence and Light
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New York Composers: Searching for a New Music
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Reclaiming the Body: Feminist Art in America
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude: A Environmental Art Duo
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Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move
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Robert Morris: Retrospective
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Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy
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Kisho Kurokawa From Metabolism to Symbiosis
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The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros
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John Hejduk: Builder of Worlds
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After Modernism: The Dilemma of Influence
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Art in an Age of Mass Culture
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Arata Isozaki II: International Projects
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Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
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Deconstructivist Architects
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Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects
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Tadao Ando
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Frank Gehry: The Formative Years
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4 Artists: Robert Ryman, Eva Hesse, Bruce Nauman, Susan Rothenberg
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Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact
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Richard Meier
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Mies
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A Composer’s Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera
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Arata Isozaki: Early work in Japan
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Empire City
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Colin McPhee: The Lure of Asian Music
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A New Spirit in Painting: 6 Painters of the 1980's
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Beyond Utopia: Changing Attitudes in American Architecture
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Motherwell/Alberti
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Philip Guston: A Life Lived
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We Were German Jews
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Pablo Picasso: The Legacy of a Genius
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14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s
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Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers
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Hans Bethe꞉ Prophet of Energy
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Working with Einstein
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Robert Rauschenberg: Retrospective
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Masters of Modern Sculpture Part I: The Pioneers
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Masters of Modern Sculpture Part II: Beyond Cubism
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Masters of Modern Sculpture Part III: The New World
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Artpark People
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Claes Oldenburg: The Formative Years
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Roy Lichtenstein
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Christo: Works in Progress
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Jasper Johns: Decoy
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The Artist's Studio: Jean Dubuffet
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Robert Motherwell: Summer of 1971
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The New York School
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Larry Rivers
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American Art in the 1960s
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Isamu Noguchi
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New Yorkers
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David Hockney's Diaries
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Jim Dine: London
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Scenes Seen with Allen Jones
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Katja Mann: A Life with Thomas Mann
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Christo: Wrapped Coast
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Monk in Europe
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Monk
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Hans Werner Henze: Summer of 1966
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Hütet eure Töchter!
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Broadway Express
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