Michael Blackwood

Michael Blackwood

Personal Details

Spouse
  • Nancy Rosen

    ( May 9, 2024 to Feb 24, 2023 )
  • Ela Hockaday Kyle

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.

Career

2016
George Segal
George Segal as Director
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2012
The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY
The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY as Director
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David Chipperfield: Form Matters
David Chipperfield: Form Matters as Director
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The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter Zumthor
2010
New York Dance: States of Performance
2009
Georg Baselitz: Making Art after Auschwitz and Dresden
Christo: Wrapped Walk Ways
Christo: Wrapped Walk Ways as Director
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Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial
Cecil Balmond: Visionary Engineer and Architect
2007
Jeff Wall: Retrospective
Jeff Wall: Retrospective as Director
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Hans Haacke: 4 Decades
Hans Haacke: 4 Decades as Director
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The Imaginary Solutions of Thomas Chimes
2005
Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression
Ed Ruscha: 4 Decades
Ed Ruscha: 4 Decades as Director
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Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades
Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades as Director
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2004
What is Minimalism?: The American Perspective 1958-1968
The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney
A Day with Zaha Hadid
A Day with Zaha Hadid as Director
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2003
Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality
Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality as Director
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Bernard Tschumi: Architect and Theorist
Conversations with Philip Guston
Conversations with Philip Guston as Director
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Sol LeWitt: 4 Decades
Sol LeWitt: 4 Decades as Director
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2000
Frank Gehry: An Architecture of Joy
Frank Gehry: An Architecture of Joy as Director
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1999
Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language
1996
New York Composers: Searching for a New Music
Louis Kahn: Silence and Light
Louis Kahn: Silence and Light as Director
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1995
Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move
1994
Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy
1992
After Modernism: The Dilemma of Influence
1991
Art in an Age of Mass Culture
Art in an Age of Mass Culture as Director
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1990
Deconstructivist Architects
Deconstructivist Architects as Director
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Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis as Director
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1989
Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects
1988
Frank Gehry: The Formative Years
Frank Gehry: The Formative Years as Director
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Tadao Ando
Tadao Ando as Director
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1987
Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact
1986
Mies
Mies as Director
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1985
Empire City
Empire City as Director
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1984
A New Spirit in Painting: 6 Painters of the 1980's
1982
Philip Guston: A Life Lived
Philip Guston: A Life Lived as Director
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1981
Pablo Picasso: The Legacy of a Genius
We Were German Jews
We Were German Jews as Director
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14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s
1980
Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers
1975
Claes Oldenburg: The Formative Years
Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein as Director
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1972
American Art in the 1960s
American Art in the 1960s as Director
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Robert Motherwell: Summer of 1971
Robert Motherwell: Summer of 1971 as Director
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The New York School
The New York School as Director
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Larry Rivers
Larry Rivers as Director
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1970
David Hockney's Diaries
David Hockney's Diaries as Director
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Jim Dine: London
Jim Dine: London as Director
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1968
Monk
Monk as Director
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Monk in Europe
Monk in Europe as Director
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