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