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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Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language
Katja Mann: A Life with Thomas Mann
Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality
What is Minimalism? : The American Perspective 1958-1968
Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades
A New Spirit in Painting: 6 Painters of the 1980's
Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy
Cecil Balmond: Visionary Engineer and Architect
Georg Baselitz: Making Art after Auschwitz and Dresden
Frank Gehry: An Architecture of Joy
The New Modernists: Folds Blobs + Boxes, Architecture in the Digital Era
Claes Oldenburg: The Formative Years
Louis Kahn: Silence and Light
Bernard Tschumi: Architect and Theorist
We Were German Jews
Robert Morris: Retrospective
Christo: Wrapped Coast
Ed Ruscha: 4 Decades
Richard Meier
Robert Motherwell: Summer of 1971
Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering
Post Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Structural Engineering
New York Dance States of Performance
Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering
Solid States: Concrete in Architecture and Structural Engineering
Hans Haacke: 4 Decades
Vija Celmins: 4 Decades
The Imaginary Solutions of Thomas Chimes
Brice Marden: 4 Decades
Elizabeth Murray: 4 Decades
Richard Meier in Rome Building a Church in the City of Churches
Art in an Age of Mass Culture
Pablo Picasso: The Legacy of a Genius
Christo: Works in Progress
Christo: Wrapped Walk Ways
Artpark People
David Hockney's Diaries
Jim Dine: London
Reclaiming the Body: Feminist Art in America
Scenes Seen with Allen Jones
The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney
The New York School
George Segal
Kisho Kurokawa From Metabolism to Symbiosis
John Hejduk: Builder of Worlds
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: A Environmental Art Duo
Working with Einstein
Arata Isozaki: Early work in Japan
Steven Holl: The Body in Space
Hütet eure Töchter!
Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial
Conversations with Philip Guston
Philip Guston: A Life Lived
Larry Rivers
Arata Isozaki II: International Projects
Mies
Robert Rauschenberg: Retrospective
Tadao Ando
Jasper Johns: Decoy
Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact
Monk
Broadway Express
Empire City
Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
Monk in Europe
American Art in the 1960s
Roy Lichtenstein
New York Composers: Searching for a New Music
Frank Gehry: The Formative Years
Beyond Utopia: Changing Attitudes in American Architecture
Andy Warhol
Jeff Wall: Retrospective
Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression
14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s
Greg Lynn: Archaeologist of the Digital
Hans Werner Henze: Summer of 1966
The Artist's Studio: Carroll Dunham
The New Clark: Bringing the Ando Experience to the Berkshires
Kenneth Frampton: A Critical Voice
Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture
Sol LeWitt: 4 Decades
Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity
The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY
The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter Zumthor
The Juilliard String Quartet: Keeping Beethoven Contemporary
The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros
Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects
David Chipperfield: Form Matters
A Composer’s Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera
Isamu Noguchi
Masters of Modern Sculpture Part I: The Pioneers
Masters of Modern Sculpture Part II: Beyond Cubism
Masters of Modern Sculpture Part III: The New World
Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move
Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers
Bernd and Hilla Becher: Typologies of Industrial Architecture
The Artist's Studio: Jean Dubuffet
Deconstructivist Architects
A Day with Zaha Hadid
After Modernism: The Dilemma of Influence
Art in our Time: Toward a New Museum of Modern Art
Mel Bochner: Thoughts Made Visible
Victor and Sally Ganz: Discovering Eva Hesse
Motherwell/Alberti
New Yorkers
Joel Shapiro: 20 Elements
Colin McPhee: The Lure of Asian Music
Hans Bethe꞉ Prophet of Energy
4 Artists: Robert Ryman, Eva Hesse, Bruce Nauman, Susan Rothenberg