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Michael Blackwood

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 ge...

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George Segal 2016 Greg Lynn: Archaeologist of the Digital 2014 The Artist's Studio: Carroll Dunham 2014 The New Clark: Bringing the Ando Experience to the Berkshires 2014 Kenneth Frampton: A Critical Voice 2012 Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture 2012 Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity 2012 The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY 2012 The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter Zumthor 2012 The Juilliard String Quartet: Keeping Beethoven Contemporary 2012 David Chipperfield: Form Matters 2012 Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering 2011 Post Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Structural Engineering 2010 New York Dance States of Performance 2010 Cecil Balmond: Visionary Engineer and Architect 2009 Georg Baselitz: Making Art after Auschwitz and Dresden 2009 Solid States: Concrete in Architecture and Structural Engineering 2009 Christo: Wrapped Walk Ways 2009 Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial 2009 Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering 2008 Hans Haacke: 4 Decades 2007 Vija Celmins: 4 Decades 2007 The Imaginary Solutions of Thomas Chimes 2007 Jeff Wall: Retrospective 2007 Bernd and Hilla Becher: Typologies of Industrial Architecture 2007 Brice Marden: 4 Decades 2006 Elizabeth Murray: 4 Decades 2006 Richard Meier in Rome Building a Church in the City of Churches 2006 Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades 2005 Ed Ruscha: 4 Decades 2005 Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression 2005 Joel Shapiro: 20 Elements 2005 What is Minimalism? : The American Perspective 1958-1968 2004 The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney 2004 A Day with Zaha Hadid 2004 Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality 2003 Bernard Tschumi: Architect and Theorist 2003 Conversations with Philip Guston 2003 The New Modernists: Folds Blobs + Boxes, Architecture in the Digital Era 2001 Sol LeWitt: 4 Decades 2001 Art in our Time: Toward a New Museum of Modern Art 2001 Frank Gehry: An Architecture of Joy 2000 Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language 1999 Steven Holl: The Body in Space 1999 Victor and Sally Ganz: Discovering Eva Hesse 1999 Mel Bochner: Thoughts Made Visible 1997 Louis Kahn: Silence and Light 1996 New York Composers: Searching for a New Music 1996 Reclaiming the Body: Feminist Art in America 1995 Christo and Jeanne-Claude: A Environmental Art Duo 1995 Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move 1995 Robert Morris: Retrospective 1994 Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy 1994 Kisho Kurokawa From Metabolism to Symbiosis 1993 The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros 1993 John Hejduk: Builder of Worlds 1992 After Modernism: The Dilemma of Influence 1992 Art in an Age of Mass Culture 1991 Arata Isozaki II: International Projects 1990 Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis 1990 Deconstructivist Architects 1990 Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects 1989 Tadao Ando 1988 Frank Gehry: The Formative Years 1988 4 Artists: Robert Ryman, Eva Hesse, Bruce Nauman, Susan Rothenberg 1988 Richard Meier 1986 Mies 1986 A Composer’s Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera 1986 Arata Isozaki: Early work in Japan 1985 Empire City 1985 Colin McPhee: The Lure of Asian Music 1985 A New Spirit in Painting: 6 Painters of the 1980's 1984 Beyond Utopia: Changing Attitudes in American Architecture 1984 Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact 1984 Motherwell/Alberti 1984 Philip Guston: A Life Lived 1982 We Were German Jews 1981 Pablo Picasso: The Legacy of a Genius 1981 14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s 1981 Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers 1980 Hans Bethe꞉ Prophet of Energy 1980 Working with Einstein 1979 Robert Rauschenberg: Retrospective 1979 Masters of Modern Sculpture Part I: The Pioneers 1978 Masters of Modern Sculpture Part II: Beyond Cubism 1978 Masters of Modern Sculpture Part III: The New World 1978 Artpark People 1976 Claes Oldenburg: The Formative Years 1975 Roy Lichtenstein 1975 Christo: Works in Progress 1974 Jasper Johns: Decoy 1973 The Artist's Studio: Jean Dubuffet 1973 Robert Motherwell: Summer of 1971 1972 The New York School 1972 Larry Rivers 1972 American Art in the 1960s 1972 Isamu Noguchi 1972 New Yorkers 1971 David Hockney's Diaries 1970 Jim Dine: London 1970 Scenes Seen with Allen Jones 1970 Katja Mann: A Life with Thomas Mann 1969 Christo: Wrapped Coast 1969 Monk in Europe 1968 Monk 1968 Hans Werner Henze: Summer of 1966 1967 Hütet eure Töchter! 1964 Broadway Express 1961
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