Director
Michael Blackwood
106 films
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.
Best known for
The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY
2012 · Producer, Director
Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression
2005 · Director, Producer
Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
1990 · Director, Producer
Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture
2012 · Director, Producer
Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity
2012 · Director, Producer
On Kanopy
Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades
2005 · Director
On Kanopy
Filmography 106
George Segal
2016 · Director, Producer
Greg Lynn: Archaeologist of the Digital
2014 · Director, Producer
The Artist's Studio: Carroll Dunham
2014 · Director, Producer
The New Clark: Bringing the Ando Experience to the Berkshires
2014 · Director, Producer
On Kanopy
The Juilliard String Quartet: Keeping Beethoven Contemporary
2012 · Director, Producer
David Chipperfield: Form Matters
2012 · Director
Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture
2012 · Director, Producer
Kenneth Frampton: A Critical Voice
2012 · Producer, Director
Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity
2012 · Director, Producer
On Kanopy
The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY
2012 · Producer, Director
The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter Zumthor
2012 · Director, Producer
Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering
2011 · Director
On Kanopy
New York Dance States of Performance
2010 · Director
Post Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Structural Engineering
2010 · Director
Georg Baselitz: Making Art after Auschwitz and Dresden
2009 · Director
Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial
2009 · Producer, Director
On Kanopy
Cecil Balmond: Visionary Engineer and Architect
2009 · Director
Solid States: Concrete in Architecture and Structural Engineering
2009 · Director
Christo: Wrapped Walk Ways
2009 · Director
On Kanopy
Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering
2008 · Director
Jeff Wall: Retrospective
2007 · Director, Producer
On Kanopy
The Imaginary Solutions of Thomas Chimes
2007 · Director
On Kanopy
Bernd and Hilla Becher: Typologies of Industrial Architecture
2007 · Director
Vija Celmins: 4 Decades
2007 · Director
On Kanopy