Directing
Michael Blackwood
EN, DE cinema · 111 credits
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
Filmography
George Segal
Director, Producer
Greg Lynn: Archaeologist of the Digital
Director, Producer
The Artist's Studio: Carroll Dunham
Director, Producer
Kenneth Frampton: A Critical Voice
Director, Producer
Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture
Director, Producer
Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity
Director, Producer
The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY
Director, Producer
The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter Zumthor
Director, Producer
Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial
Producer, Director
Jeff Wall: Retrospective
Director, Producer
Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression
Director, Producer
The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney
2004
The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney
Director, Producer
A Day with Zaha Hadid
Director, Producer
Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality
Director, Producer
Conversations with Philip Guston
Director, Producer
Sol LeWitt: 4 Decades
Director, Producer
Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language
Director, Producer
Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy
Producer, Director
After Modernism: The Dilemma of Influence
Producer, Director
Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
Director, Producer
Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects
Director, Producer
Tadao Ando
Director, Producer
4 Artists: Robert Ryman, Eva Hesse, Bruce Nauman, Susan Rothenberg
Director, Producer
Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact
Producer, Director
Richard Meier
Director
Mies
Director, Producer
A Composer’s Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera
Director, Producer
Empire City
Producer, Director
Philip Guston: A Life Lived
Director, Producer
Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers
Director, Producer
Working with Einstein
Director, Producer
Robert Rauschenberg: Retrospective
Director, Producer, Writer
Jingle Bells: RFK - 1964
1977
Jingle Bells: RFK - 1964
Director of Photography
Artpark People
Director
Jasper Johns: Decoy
Director, Producer
Larry Rivers
Director, Producer
Andy Warhol
Producer
Isamu Noguchi
Director
Monk
Producer, Director
Monk in Europe
Director
Hans Werner Henze: Summer of 1966
Director, Producer
Hütet eure Töchter!
Director
You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
Camera Operator
Broadway Express
Producer, Director of Photography, Director