Michael Blackwood
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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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As director
George Segal 2016
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Greg Lynn: Archaeologist of the Digital 2014
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The Artist's Studio: Carroll Dunham 2014
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The New Clark: Bringing the Ando Experience to the Berkshires 2014
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The Juilliard String Quartet: Keeping Beethoven Contemporary 2012
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David Chipperfield: Form Matters 2012
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Kenneth Frampton: A Critical Voice 2012
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Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture 2012
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Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity 2012
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The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY 2012
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The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter Zumthor 2012
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Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering 2011
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New York Dance States of Performance 2010
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Post Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Structural Engineering 2010
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Georg Baselitz: Making Art after Auschwitz and Dresden 2009
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Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial 2009
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Cecil Balmond: Visionary Engineer and Architect 2009
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Solid States: Concrete in Architecture and Structural Engineering 2009
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Christo: Wrapped Walk Ways 2009
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Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering 2008
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Jeff Wall: Retrospective 2007
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The Imaginary Solutions of Thomas Chimes 2007
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Bernd and Hilla Becher: Typologies of Industrial Architecture 2007
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Hans Haacke: 4 Decades 2007
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Vija Celmins: 4 Decades 2007
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Richard Meier in Rome Building a Church in the City of Churches 2006
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Brice Marden: 4 Decades 2006
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Elizabeth Murray: 4 Decades 2006
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Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression 2005
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Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades 2005
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Ed Ruscha: 4 Decades 2005
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Joel Shapiro: 20 Elements 2005
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The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney 2004
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What is Minimalism? : The American Perspective 1958-1968 2004
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A Day with Zaha Hadid 2004
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Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality 2003
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Conversations with Philip Guston 2003
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Bernard Tschumi: Architect and Theorist 2003
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The New Modernists: Folds Blobs + Boxes, Architecture in the Digital Era 2001
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Sol LeWitt: 4 Decades 2001
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Art in our Time: Toward a New Museum of Modern Art 2001
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Frank Gehry: An Architecture of Joy 2000
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Steven Holl: The Body in Space 1999
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Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language 1999
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Victor and Sally Ganz: Discovering Eva Hesse 1999
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Mel Bochner: Thoughts Made Visible 1997
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Louis Kahn: Silence and Light 1996
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New York Composers: Searching for a New Music 1996
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude: A Environmental Art Duo 1995
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Reclaiming the Body: Feminist Art in America 1995
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Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move 1995
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Robert Morris: Retrospective 1994
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Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy 1994
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Kisho Kurokawa From Metabolism to Symbiosis 1993
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The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros 1993
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John Hejduk: Builder of Worlds 1992
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After Modernism: The Dilemma of Influence 1992
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Art in an Age of Mass Culture 1991
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Deconstructivist Architects 1990
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Arata Isozaki II: International Projects 1990
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Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis 1990
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Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects 1989
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Frank Gehry: The Formative Years 1988
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Tadao Ando 1988
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4 Artists: Robert Ryman, Eva Hesse, Bruce Nauman, Susan Rothenberg 1988
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A Composer’s Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera 1986
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Richard Meier 1986
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Mies 1986
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Arata Isozaki: Early work in Japan 1985
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Empire City 1985
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Colin McPhee: The Lure of Asian Music 1985
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Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact 1984
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A New Spirit in Painting: 6 Painters of the 1980's 1984
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Beyond Utopia: Changing Attitudes in American Architecture 1984
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Motherwell/Alberti 1984
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Philip Guston: A Life Lived 1982
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We Were German Jews 1981
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14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s 1981
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Pablo Picasso: The Legacy of a Genius 1981
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Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers 1980
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