Michael Blackwood
Directing
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.
Behind the camera
2016George Segal
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2014Greg Lynn: Archaeologist of the Digital
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2014The Artist's Studio: Carroll Dunham
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2014The New Clark: Bringing the Ando Experience to the Berkshires
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2012Kenneth Frampton: A Critical Voice
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2012Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture
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2012Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity
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2012The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY
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2012The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter Zumthor
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2012The Juilliard String Quartet: Keeping Beethoven Contemporary
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2012David Chipperfield: Form Matters
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2011Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering
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2010Post Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Structural Engineering
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2010New York Dance States of Performance
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2009Cecil Balmond: Visionary Engineer and Architect
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2009Georg Baselitz: Making Art after Auschwitz and Dresden
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2009Solid States: Concrete in Architecture and Structural Engineering
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2009Christo: Wrapped Walk Ways
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2009Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial
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2008Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering
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2007Hans Haacke: 4 Decades
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2007Vija Celmins: 4 Decades
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2007The Imaginary Solutions of Thomas Chimes
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2007Jeff Wall: Retrospective
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