Michael Blackwood

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.

Filmography of Michael Blackwood

  • George Segal (2016)
  • Greg Lynn: Archaeologist of the Digital (2014)
  • The Artist's Studio: Carroll Dunham (2014)
  • The New Clark: Bringing the Ando Experience to the Berkshires (2014)
  • Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture (2012)
  • Kenneth Frampton: A Critical Voice (2012)
  • Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity (2012)
  • The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY (2012)
  • The Juilliard String Quartet: Keeping Beethoven Contemporary (2012)
  • The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter Zumthor (2012)
  • David Chipperfield: Form Matters (2012)
  • Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering (2011)
  • Post Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Structural Engineering (2010)
  • New York Dance States of Performance (2010)
  • Cecil Balmond: Visionary Engineer and Architect (2009)
  • Georg Baselitz: Making Art after Auschwitz and Dresden (2009)
  • Solid States: Concrete in Architecture and Structural Engineering (2009)
  • Christo: Wrapped Walk Ways (2009)
  • Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial (2009)
  • Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering (2008)
  • Vija Celmins: 4 Decades (2007)
  • Hans Haacke: 4 Decades (2007)
  • The Imaginary Solutions of Thomas Chimes (2007)
  • Jeff Wall: Retrospective (2007)
  • Bernd and Hilla Becher: Typologies of Industrial Architecture (2007)
  • Brice Marden: 4 Decades (2006)
  • Elizabeth Murray: 4 Decades (2006)
  • Richard Meier in Rome Building a Church in the City of Churches (2006)
  • Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades (2005)
  • Ed Ruscha: 4 Decades (2005)
  • Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression (2005)
  • Joel Shapiro: 20 Elements (2005)
  • What is Minimalism? : The American Perspective 1958-1968 (2004)
  • A Day with Zaha Hadid (2004)
  • Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality (2003)
  • Bernard Tschumi: Architect and Theorist (2003)
  • Conversations with Philip Guston (2003)
  • The New Modernists: Folds Blobs + Boxes, Architecture in the Digital Era (2001)
  • Sol LeWitt: 4 Decades (2001)
  • Art in our Time: Toward a New Museum of Modern Art (2001)