
Person
Michael Blackwood
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.
Known for

Empire City
Producer

4 Artists: Robert Ryman, Eva Hesse, Bruce Nauman, Susan Rothenberg
Director

Mies
Director

Louis Kahn: Silence and Light
Director

Deconstructivist Architects
Director

George Segal
Director

You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
Camera Operator

Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression
Director

Hütet eure Töchter!
Director
Jingle Bells: RFK - 1964
Director of Photography
Filmography
- 2016George SegalDirector
- 2014Greg Lynn: Archaeologist of the DigitalDirector
- 2014The Artist's Studio: Carroll DunhamDirector
- 2014The New Clark: Bringing the Ando Experience to the BerkshiresDirector
- 2012The Juilliard String Quartet: Keeping Beethoven ContemporaryDirector
- 2012David Chipperfield: Form MattersDirector
- 2012Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of ArchitectureDirector
- 2012Kenneth Frampton: A Critical VoiceProducer
- 2012Lee Ufan: Marking InfinityDirector
- 2012The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAYProducer
- 2012The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter ZumthorDirector
- 2011Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and EngineeringDirector
- 2010New York Dance States of PerformanceDirector
- 2010Post Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Structural EngineeringDirector
- 2009Georg Baselitz: Making Art after Auschwitz and DresdenDirector
- 2009Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust MemorialProducer
- 2009Cecil Balmond: Visionary Engineer and ArchitectDirector
- 2009Solid States: Concrete in Architecture and Structural EngineeringDirector
- 2009Christo: Wrapped Walk WaysDirector
- 2008Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural EngineeringDirector
- 2007Jeff Wall: RetrospectiveDirector
- 2007The Imaginary Solutions of Thomas ChimesDirector
- 2007Bernd and Hilla Becher: Typologies of Industrial ArchitectureDirector
- 2007Vija Celmins: 4 DecadesDirector
- 2007Hans Haacke: 4 DecadesDirector
- 2006Richard Meier in Rome Building a Church in the City of ChurchesDirector
- 2006Brice Marden: 4 DecadesDirector
- 2006Elizabeth Murray: 4 DecadesDirector
- 2005Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of RepressionDirector
- 2005Gerhard Richter: 4 DecadesDirector
- 2005Ed Ruscha: 4 DecadesDirector
- 2005Joel Shapiro: 20 ElementsDirector
- 2004The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew BarneyDirector
- 2004What is Minimalism? : The American Perspective 1958-1968Director
- 2004A Day with Zaha HadidDirector
- 2003Alvaro Siza: Transforming RealityProducer
- 2003Conversations with Philip GustonProducer
- 2003Bernard Tschumi: Architect and TheoristDirector
- 2001The New Modernists: Folds Blobs + Boxes, Architecture in the Digital EraDirector
- 2001Sol LeWitt: 4 DecadesDirector
- 2001Art in our Time: Toward a New Museum of Modern ArtDirector
- 2000Frank Gehry: An Architecture of JoyDirector
- 1999Steven Holl: The Body in SpaceDirector
- 1999Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal LanguageDirector
- 1999Victor and Sally Ganz: Discovering Eva HesseDirector
- 1997Mel Bochner: Thoughts Made VisibleDirector
- 1996Louis Kahn: Silence and LightDirector
- 1996New York Composers: Searching for a New MusicDirector
- 1995Christo and Jeanne-Claude: A Environmental Art DuoDirector
- 1995Reclaiming the Body: Feminist Art in AmericaDirector
- 1995Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture MoveDirector
- 1994Musical Outsiders: An American LegacyProducer
- 1994Robert Morris: RetrospectiveDirector
- 1993Kisho Kurokawa From Metabolism to SymbiosisDirector
- 1993The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline OliverosDirector
- 1992John Hejduk: Builder of WorldsDirector
- 1992After Modernism: The Dilemma of InfluenceProducer
- 1991Art in an Age of Mass CultureDirector
- 1990Deconstructivist ArchitectsDirector
- 1990Arata Isozaki II: International ProjectsDirector
- 1990Butoh: Body on the Edge of CrisisDirector
- 1989Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde ArchitectsDirector
- 1988Frank Gehry: The Formative YearsDirector
- 1988Tadao AndoDirector
- 19884 Artists: Robert Ryman, Eva Hesse, Bruce Nauman, Susan RothenbergDirector
- 1987Francis Bacon and the Brutality of FactProducer
- 1986A Composer’s Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an OperaDirector
- 1986Richard MeierDirector
- 1986MiesDirector
- 1985Arata Isozaki: Early work in JapanDirector
- 1985Empire CityProducer
- 1985Colin McPhee: The Lure of Asian MusicDirector
- 1984A New Spirit in Painting: 6 Painters of the 1980'sDirector
- 1984Beyond Utopia: Changing Attitudes in American ArchitectureDirector
- 1984Motherwell/AlbertiDirector
- 1982Philip Guston: A Life LivedProducer
- 1981We Were German JewsDirector
- 198114 Americans: Directions of the 1970sDirector
- 1981Pablo Picasso: The Legacy of a GeniusDirector
- 1980Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern ChoreographersDirector
- 1980Hans Bethe꞉ Prophet of EnergyDirector
- 1979Robert Rauschenberg: RetrospectiveDirector
- 1979Working with EinsteinDirector
- 1978Masters of Modern Sculpture Part III: The New WorldDirector
- 1978Masters of Modern Sculpture Part II: Beyond CubismDirector
- 1978Masters of Modern Sculpture Part I: The PioneersDirector
- 1977Jingle Bells: RFK - 1964Director of Photography
- 1976Artpark PeopleDirector
- 1975Claes Oldenburg: The Formative YearsDirector
- 1975Roy LichtensteinDirector
- 1974Christo: Works in ProgressDirector
- 1973The Artist's Studio: Jean DubuffetDirector
- 1973Jasper Johns: DecoyDirector
- 1972Isamu NoguchiDirector
- 1972Andy WarholProducer
- 1972Robert Motherwell: Summer of 1971Director
- 1972The New York SchoolDirector
- 1972Larry RiversDirector
- 1972American Art in the 1960sDirector
- 1971New YorkersDirector
- 1970David Hockney's DiariesDirector
- 1970Jim Dine: LondonDirector
- 1970Scenes Seen with Allen JonesDirector
- 1969Katja Mann: A Life with Thomas MannDirector
- 1969Christo: Wrapped CoastDirector
- 1968MonkProducer
- 1968Monk in EuropeDirector
- 1967Hans Werner Henze: Summer of 1966Director
- 1964You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves YouCamera Operator
- 1964Hütet eure Töchter!Director
- 1961Broadway ExpressProducer
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