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