Directing
Christian Blackwood
EN, FR, DE cinema · 35 credits
Born
7 July 1942
Died
22 July 1992 (aged 50)
Birthplace
Berlin, Germany
Also known as Christian Schwarzwald
Christian Blackwood was an American film director and cinematographer. He was initially a child actor, then a cinematographer acclaimed for his work in Charlotte Zwerin's Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser. But his major work was as the director of over 80 films, mostly documentaries, over a 25-year career. His most famous films are Observations Under The Volcano and On the Set of Death of a Salesman, behind-the-scenes looks at the creation of movies by John Huston and Volker Schlöndorff from the famous novel and play. The latter film won him the grand prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Christian Blackwood died in 1992 of lung cancer. He was married to film writer, producer and fine art photographer, Carolyn Marks Blackwood. His film archives are stored in the Museum of Modern Art.
Known for
Filmography
Juilliard
Juilliard
Director
Tapdancin'
Director
Conversations with Philip Guston
Director of Photography
Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
Director of Photography
Motel
Director, Producer, Director of Photography
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser
Director of Photography
Signed: Lino Brocka
Director, Writer, Cinematography, Producer
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
Cinematography, Producer, Director
The Soldier's Tale
Director
Observations Under the Volcano
Director of Photography, Producer, Director
All by Myself: The Eartha Kitt Story
Cinematography, Director, Producer
Philip Guston: A Life Lived
Cinematography
Edith Head
Producer, Director
Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush
Director, Editor, Producer
Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel
Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Producer
Hollywood's Musical Moods
Producer, Director
Yesterday's Witness
Producer, Director
Larry Rivers
Cinematography
Isamu Noguchi
Director
Summer in the City
Director, Director of Photography
Sex-Business: Made in Pasing
Director of Photography
San Domingo
Cinematography
Harlem Theater
Director of Photography
Christo: Wrapped Coast
Cinematography
Monk
Cinematography, Producer, Director
Monk in Europe
Director
Hans Werner Henze: Summer of 1966
Cinematography
Lockenköpfchen
1967
Lockenköpfchen
Director of Photography
Not Reconciled
Cinematography
The Murderers Are Among Us
as Otto Brückner