Michael Blackwood
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Michael Blackwood

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.

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Known for

You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves YouViewing moment
You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
1964
Frank Gehry: An Architecture of JoyViewing moment
Frank Gehry: An Architecture of Joy
2000
Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of RepressionViewing moment
Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression
2005
Elizabeth Murray: 4 DecadesViewing moment
Elizabeth Murray: 4 Decades
2006
The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline OliverosViewing moment
The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros
1993
Hütet eure Töchter!Viewing moment
Hütet eure Töchter!
1964
The New Modernists: Folds Blobs + Boxes, Architecture in the Digital EraViewing moment
The New Modernists: Folds Blobs + Boxes, Architecture in the Digital Era
2001
Beyond Utopia: Changing Attitudes in American ArchitectureViewing moment
Beyond Utopia: Changing Attitudes in American Architecture
1984
Richard Meier in Rome Building a Church in the City of ChurchesViewing moment
Richard Meier in Rome Building a Church in the City of Churches
2006
Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects★ 10Viewing moment
Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects
1989
Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy★ 6Viewing moment
Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy
1994
Robert Morris: RetrospectiveViewing moment
Robert Morris: Retrospective
1994
14 Americans: Directions of the 1970sViewing moment
14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s
1981
Art in an Age of Mass CultureViewing moment
Art in an Age of Mass Culture
1991
David Chipperfield: Form MattersViewing moment
David Chipperfield: Form Matters
2012
We Were German JewsViewing moment
We Were German Jews
1981
Christo: Wrapped CoastViewing moment
Christo: Wrapped Coast
1969
MonkViewing moment
Monk
1999
Pablo Picasso: The Legacy of a GeniusViewing moment
Pablo Picasso: The Legacy of a Genius
1981
Masters of Modern Sculpture Part I: The PioneersViewing moment
Masters of Modern Sculpture Part I: The Pioneers
1978
Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern ChoreographersViewing moment
Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers
1980
Jim Dine: LondonViewing moment
Jim Dine: London
1970
Ed Ruscha: 4 DecadesViewing moment
Ed Ruscha: 4 Decades
2005
Francis Bacon and the Brutality of FactViewing moment
Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact
1987
Christo: Works in ProgressViewing moment
Christo: Works in Progress
1974
After Modernism: The Dilemma of InfluenceViewing moment
After Modernism: The Dilemma of Influence
1992
David Hockney's DiariesViewing moment
David Hockney's Diaries
1970
Richard MeierViewing moment
Richard Meier
1986
Jeff Wall: RetrospectiveViewing moment
Jeff Wall: Retrospective
2007
Christo: Wrapped Walk WaysViewing moment
Christo: Wrapped Walk Ways
2009
Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal LanguageViewing moment
Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language
1999
Conversations with Philip GustonViewing moment
Conversations with Philip Guston
2003
Robert Motherwell: Summer of 1971Viewing moment
Robert Motherwell: Summer of 1971
1972
Greg Lynn: Archaeologist of the DigitalViewing moment
Greg Lynn: Archaeologist of the Digital
2014
Artpark PeopleViewing moment
Artpark People
1976
What is Minimalism? : The American Perspective 1958-1968Viewing moment
What is Minimalism? : The American Perspective 1958-1968
2021
Philip Guston: A Life LivedViewing moment
Philip Guston: A Life Lived
1982
Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and EngineeringViewing moment
Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering
2011
Hans Werner Henze: Summer of 1966Viewing moment
Hans Werner Henze: Summer of 1966
1967
MonkViewing moment
Monk
1968

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