Michael Blackwood
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
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.
Known For
Crew
Working with Einstein
Director
(2016)
George Segal
Director, Producer
(2014)
Greg Lynn: Archaeologist of the Digital
Producer, Director
(2014)
The Artist's Studio: Carroll Dunham
Producer, Director
(2014)
The New Clark: Bringing the Ando Experience to the Berkshires
Producer, Director
(2012)
Kenneth Frampton: A Critical Voice
Producer, Director
(2012)
The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY
Producer, Director
(2012)
Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture
Director, Producer
(2012)
Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity
Producer, Director
(2012)
The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter Zumthor
Director, Producer
(2012)
The Juilliard String Quartet: Keeping Beethoven Contemporary
Producer, Director
(2012)
David Chipperfield: Form Matters
Director
(2011)
(2010)
(2010)
(2009)
(2009)
(2009)
(2009)
Christo: Wrapped Walk Ways
Director
(2009)
Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial
Producer, Director
(2008)
(2007)
Hans Haacke: 4 Decades
Director
(2007)
Vija Celmins: 4 Decades
Director
(2007)
(2007)
Jeff Wall: Retrospective
Director, Producer
(2007)
(2006)
Brice Marden: 4 Decades
Director
(2006)
Elizabeth Murray: 4 Decades
Director
(2006)
(2005)
Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades
Director
(2005)
Ed Ruscha: 4 Decades
Director
(2005)
Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression
Producer, Director
(2004)
(2004)
The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney
Director, Producer
(2004)
A Day with Zaha Hadid
Director, Producer
(2003)
Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality
Director, Producer
(2003)
(2003)
Conversations with Philip Guston
Producer, Director
(2001)
(2001)
Sol LeWitt: 4 Decades
Producer, Director
(2001)
(2000)
(1999)
Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language
Director, Producer
(1999)
Steven Holl: The Body in Space
Director
(1999)
(1997)
(1996)
Louis Kahn: Silence and Light
Director
(1996)
(1995)
(1995)
(1995)
(1994)
Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy
Producer, Director
(1994)
Robert Morris: Retrospective
Director
(1993)
(1993)
(1992)
John Hejduk: Builder of Worlds
Director
(1992)
After Modernism: The Dilemma of Influence
Director, Producer
(1991)
Art in an Age of Mass Culture
Director
(1990)
(1990)
Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
Director, Producer
(1990)
Deconstructivist Architects
Director
(1989)
Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects
Director, Producer
(1988)
Tadao Ando
Director, Producer
(1988)
Frank Gehry: The Formative Years
Director
(1987)
Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact
Producer, Director
(1986)
Richard Meier
Director
(1986)
Mies
Director, Producer
(1986)
A Composer’s Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera
Director, Producer
(1985)
(1985)
Empire City
Producer, Director
(1984)
(1984)
(1984)
Motherwell/Alberti
Director
(1982)
Philip Guston: A Life Lived
Producer, Director
(1981)
We Were German Jews
Director
(1981)
(1981)
(1980)
Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers
Director, Producer
(1979)
Robert Rauschenberg: Retrospective
Producer, Director, Writer
(1978)
(1978)
(1978)
(1977)
Jingle Bells: RFK - 1964
Director of Photography
(1976)
Artpark People
Director
(1975)
(1975)
Roy Lichtenstein
Director
(1974)
Christo: Works in Progress
Director
(1973)
Jasper Johns: Decoy
Director, Producer
(1973)
(1972)
(1972)
The New York School
Director
(1972)
Larry Rivers
Producer, Director
(1972)
American Art in the 1960s
Director
(1972)
Andy Warhol
Producer
(1972)
Isamu Noguchi
Director
(1971)
New Yorkers
Director
(1970)
Jim Dine: London
Director
(1970)
David Hockney's Diaries
Director
(1970)
Scenes Seen with Allen Jones
Director
(1969)
(1969)
Christo: Wrapped Coast
Director
(1968)
Monk
Producer, Director
(1968)
Monk in Europe
Director
(1967)
Hans Werner Henze: Summer of 1966
Director, Producer
(1964)
Hütet eure Töchter!
Director
(1964)
You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
Camera Operator
(1961)
Broadway Express
Producer, Director of Photography, Director