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.
Filmography38 titles
Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects
A Composer’s Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera
Louis Kahn: Silence and Light
Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades
Andy Warhol
Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy
The Artist's Studio: Carroll Dunham
Greg Lynn: Archaeologist of the Digital
The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter Zumthor
Georg Baselitz: Making Art after Auschwitz and Dresden
Vija Celmins: 4 Decades
Elizabeth Murray: 4 Decades
Ed Ruscha: 4 Decades
Joel Shapiro: 20 Elements
What is Minimalism? : The American Perspective 1958-1968
A Day with Zaha Hadid
Sol LeWitt: 4 Decades
Frank Gehry: An Architecture of Joy
Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language
New York Composers: Searching for a New Music
Reclaiming the Body: Feminist Art in America
The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros
After Modernism: The Dilemma of Influence
Deconstructivist Architects
Tadao Ando
Frank Gehry: The Formative Years
Mies
Richard Meier
Colin McPhee: The Lure of Asian Music
A New Spirit in Painting: 6 Painters of the 1980's
Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact
Philip Guston: A Life Lived
14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s
Roy Lichtenstein
The New York School
Robert Motherwell: Summer of 1971
American Art in the 1960s