

Michael Blackwood
Director · Writer · ProducerMichael 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.
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George Segal
2016
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Greg Lynn: Archaeologist of the Digital
2014
Director

The Artist's Studio: Carroll Dunham
2014
Director

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

Greg Lynn: Archaeologist of the Digital
2014
Producer

The Artist's Studio: Carroll Dunham
2014
Producer

The New Clark: Bringing the Ando Experience to the Berkshires
2014
Producer

Kenneth Frampton: A Critical Voice
2012
Producer

Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture
2012
Producer

Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity
2012
Producer

The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY
2012
Producer

The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter Zumthor
2012
Producer

The Juilliard String Quartet: Keeping Beethoven Contemporary
2012
Producer

Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial
2009
Producer

Jeff Wall: Retrospective
2007
Producer

Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression
2005
Producer
- The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney
The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney
2004
Producer

A Day with Zaha Hadid
2004
Producer

Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality
2003
Producer

Conversations with Philip Guston
2003
Producer

Sol LeWitt: 4 Decades
2001
Producer

Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language
1999
Producer

Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy
1994
Producer

After Modernism: The Dilemma of Influence
1992
Producer

Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
1990
Producer

Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects
1989
Producer

Tadao Ando
1988
Producer

4 Artists: Robert Ryman, Eva Hesse, Bruce Nauman, Susan Rothenberg
1988
Producer

Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact
1987
Producer

Mies
1986
Producer

A Composer’s Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera
1986
Producer

Empire City
1985
Producer

Philip Guston: A Life Lived
1982
Producer

Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers
1980
Producer

Robert Rauschenberg: Retrospective
1979
Producer

Working with Einstein
1979
Producer

Jasper Johns: Decoy
1973
Producer

Larry Rivers
1972
Producer

Andy Warhol
1972
Producer

Monk
1968
Producer

Hans Werner Henze: Summer of 1966
1967
Producer

Broadway Express
1961
Producer






