Michael Blackwood
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- July 15, 1934
- Died
- February 24, 2023
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.
Filmography
George Segal 2016
Director, Producer
The New Clark: Bringing the Ando Experience to the Berkshires 2014
Director, Producer
The Artist's Studio: Carroll Dunham 2014
Director, Producer
Greg Lynn: Archaeologist of the Digital 2014
Director, Producer
The Juilliard String Quartet: Keeping Beethoven Contemporary 2012
Director, Producer
David Chipperfield: Form Matters 2012
Director
The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter Zumthor 2012
Director, Producer
The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY 2012
Producer, Director
Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity 2012
Director, Producer
Kenneth Frampton: A Critical Voice 2012
Producer, Director
Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture 2012
Director, Producer
Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering 2011
Director
New York Dance States of Performance 2010
Director
Post Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Structural Engineering 2010
Director
Georg Baselitz: Making Art after Auschwitz and Dresden 2009
Director
Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial 2009
Producer, Director
Christo: Wrapped Walk Ways 2009
Director
Solid States: Concrete in Architecture and Structural Engineering 2009
Director
Cecil Balmond: Visionary Engineer and Architect 2009
Director
Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering 2008
Director
Jeff Wall: Retrospective 2007
Director, Producer
The Imaginary Solutions of Thomas Chimes 2007
Director
Bernd and Hilla Becher: Typologies of Industrial Architecture 2007
Director
Hans Haacke: 4 Decades 2007
Director
Vija Celmins: 4 Decades 2007
Director
Richard Meier in Rome Building a Church in the City of Churches 2006
Director
Elizabeth Murray: 4 Decades 2006
Director
Brice Marden: 4 Decades 2006
Director
Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression 2005
Director, Producer
Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades 2005
Director
Joel Shapiro: 20 Elements 2005
Director
Ed Ruscha: 4 Decades 2005
Director
- The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney
The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney 2004
Director, Producer
A Day with Zaha Hadid 2004
Director, Producer
What is Minimalism? : The American Perspective 1958-1968 2004
Director
Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality 2003
Producer, Director
Conversations with Philip Guston 2003
Producer, Director
Bernard Tschumi: Architect and Theorist 2003
Director
The New Modernists: Folds Blobs + Boxes, Architecture in the Digital Era 2001
Director
Art in our Time: Toward a New Museum of Modern Art 2001
Director
Sol LeWitt: 4 Decades 2001
Director, Producer
Frank Gehry: An Architecture of Joy 2000
Director
Steven Holl: The Body in Space 1999
Director
Victor and Sally Ganz: Discovering Eva Hesse 1999
Director
Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language 1999
Director, Producer
Mel Bochner: Thoughts Made Visible 1997
Director
New York Composers: Searching for a New Music 1996
Director
Louis Kahn: Silence and Light 1996
Director
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: A Environmental Art Duo 1995
Director
Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move 1995
Director
- Reclaiming the Body: Feminist Art in America
Reclaiming the Body: Feminist Art in America 1995
Director
Robert Morris: Retrospective 1994
Director
Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy 1994
Producer, Director
Kisho Kurokawa From Metabolism to Symbiosis 1993
Director
The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros 1993
Director
John Hejduk: Builder of Worlds 1992
Director
After Modernism: The Dilemma of Influence 1992
Producer, Director
Art in an Age of Mass Culture 1991
Director
Deconstructivist Architects 1990
Director
Arata Isozaki II: International Projects 1990
Director
Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis 1990
Director, Producer
Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects 1989
Director, Producer
Frank Gehry: The Formative Years 1988
Director
4 Artists: Robert Ryman, Eva Hesse, Bruce Nauman, Susan Rothenberg 1988
Director, Producer
Tadao Ando 1988
Director, Producer
Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact 1987
Producer, Director
A Composer’s Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera 1986
Director, Producer
Mies 1986
Director, Producer
Richard Meier 1986
Director
Arata Isozaki: Early work in Japan 1985
Director
Empire City 1985
Producer, Director
Colin McPhee: The Lure of Asian Music 1985
Director
A New Spirit in Painting: 6 Painters of the 1980's 1984
Director
Motherwell/Alberti 1984
Director
Beyond Utopia: Changing Attitudes in American Architecture 1984
Director
Philip Guston: A Life Lived 1982
Producer, Director
We Were German Jews 1981
Director
14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s 1981
Director
Pablo Picasso: The Legacy of a Genius 1981
Director
Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers 1980
Director, Producer
Hans Bethe꞉ Prophet of Energy 1980
Director
Robert Rauschenberg: Retrospective 1979
Director, Producer, Writer
Working with Einstein 1979
Director, Producer
Masters of Modern Sculpture Part III: The New World 1978
Director
Masters of Modern Sculpture Part II: Beyond Cubism 1978
Director
Masters of Modern Sculpture Part I: The Pioneers 1978
Director
- Jingle Bells: RFK - 1964
Jingle Bells: RFK - 1964 1977
Director of Photography
Artpark People 1976
Director
Roy Lichtenstein 1975
Director
Claes Oldenburg: The Formative Years 1975
Director
Christo: Works in Progress 1974
Director
The Artist's Studio: Jean Dubuffet 1973
Director
Jasper Johns: Decoy 1973
Director, Producer
Isamu Noguchi 1972
Director
Andy Warhol 1972
Producer
American Art in the 1960s 1972
Director
Larry Rivers 1972
Director, Producer
The New York School 1972
Director
Robert Motherwell: Summer of 1971 1972
Director
- New Yorkers
New Yorkers 1971
Director
Scenes Seen with Allen Jones 1970
Director
Jim Dine: London 1970
Director
David Hockney's Diaries 1970
Director
Christo: Wrapped Coast 1969
Director
Katja Mann: A Life with Thomas Mann 1969
Director
Monk in Europe 1968
Director
Monk 1968
Producer, Director
Hans Werner Henze: Summer of 1966 1967
Director, Producer
You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You 1964
Camera Operator
Hütet eure Töchter! 1964
Director
Broadway Express 1961
Producer, Director of Photography, Director
Credits from TMDB.