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 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.

Directed

1. The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY (2012) — Director
2. Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis (1990) — Director
3. Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression (2005) — Director
4. Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades (2005) — Director
5. Louis Kahn: Silence and Light (1996) — Director
6. Working with Einstein (1979) — Director
7. Hütet eure Töchter! (1964) — Director
8. Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy (1994) — Director
9. Monk (1968) — Director
10. Empire City (1985) — Director
11. Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture (2012) — Director
12. Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity (2012) — Director
13. Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects (1989) — Director
14. A Composer’s Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera (1986) — Director
15. Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move (1995) — Director
16. Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language (1999) — Director
17. Katja Mann: A Life with Thomas Mann (1969) — Director
18. Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality (2003) — Director
19. What is Minimalism? : The American Perspective 1958-1968 (2004) — Director
20. A New Spirit in Painting: 6 Painters of the 1980's (1984) — Director
21. Cecil Balmond: Visionary Engineer and Architect (2009) — Director
22. Georg Baselitz: Making Art after Auschwitz and Dresden (2009) — Director
23. Frank Gehry: An Architecture of Joy (2000) — Director
24. The New Modernists: Folds Blobs + Boxes, Architecture in the Digital Era (2001) — Director
25. Bernard Tschumi: Architect and Theorist (2003) — Director
26. Claes Oldenburg: The Formative Years (1975) — Director
27. We Were German Jews (1981) — Director
28. Robert Morris: Retrospective (1994) — Director
29. Ed Ruscha: 4 Decades (2005) — Director
30. Christo: Wrapped Coast (1969) — Director
31. Richard Meier (1986) — Director
32. Robert Motherwell: Summer of 1971 (1972) — Director
33. Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering (2011) — Director
34. Post Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Structural Engineering (2010) — Director
35. New York Dance States of Performance (2010) — Director
36. Hans Haacke: 4 Decades (2007) — Director
37. Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering (2008) — Director
38. Vija Celmins: 4 Decades (2007) — Director
39. Solid States: Concrete in Architecture and Structural Engineering (2009) — Director
40. The Imaginary Solutions of Thomas Chimes (2007) — Director