Christian Blackwood
Skuespiller, Instruktør, Producer, Filmklipper, Forfatter
7. juli 1942 — 22. juli 1992 (50 år)
Christian Blackwood was an American film director and cinematographer. He was initially a child actor, then a cinematographer acclaimed for his work in Charlotte Zwerin's Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser. But his major work was as the director of over 80 films, mostly documentaries, over a 25-year career. His most famous films are Observations Under The Volcano and On the Set of Death of a Salesman, behind-the-scenes looks at the creation of movies by John Huston and Volker Schlöndorff from the famous novel and play. The latter film won him the grand prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Christian Blackwood died in 1992 of lung cancer. He was married to film writer, producer and fine art photographer, Carolyn Marks Blackwood. His film archives are stored in the Museum of Modern Art.
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| 2003 | Conversations with Philip Guston · as Director Of Photography |
| 1991 | Art in an Age of Mass Culture · as Cinematographer |
| 1991 | Mind Over Matter: 6 Conceptual Artists at the Whitney Museum · as Cinematographer |
| 1990 | Real Sex · as Segment Producer |
| 1990 | Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis · as Director Of Photography |
| 1989 | Motel · as Director Of Photography |
| 1988 | Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser · as Cinematographer |
| 1988 | Frank Gehry: The Formative Years · as Cinematographer |
| 1987 | Signed: Lino Brocka · as Cinematographer |
| 1986 | Nik and Murray: The Dances of Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis · as Cinematographer |
| 1985 | American Masters · as Cinematographer |
| 1982 | All by Myself: The Eartha Kitt Story · as Cinematographer |
| 1981 | Philip Guston: A Life Lived · as Cinematographer |
| 1980 | Tapdancin' · as Cinematographer |
| 1978 | Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel · as Director Of Photography |
| 1978 | Christo: Works in Progress · as Cinematographer |
| 1972 | Jasper Johns: Decoy · as Cinematographer |
| 1972 | Isamu Noguchi · as Cinematographer |
| 1972 | Larry Rivers · as Cinematographer |
| 1972 | American Art in the 1960s · as Cinematographer |
| 1972 | Robert Motherwell: Summer of 1971 · as Cinematographer |
| 1972 | New Music: Sounds and Voices from the Avant-Garde, New York 1971 · as Cinematographer |
| 1971 | Juilliard · as Cinematographer |
| 1971 | African American Musicians and Composers · as Cinematographer |
| 1970 | Summer in the City · as Director Of Photography |
| 1970 | Sex-Business: Made in Pasing · as Director Of Photography |
| 1970 | David Hockney's Diaries · as Cinematographer |
| 1970 | Jim Dine: London · as Cinematographer |
| 1970 | Japan: The New Art · as Cinematographer |
| 1969 | Christo: Wrapped Coast · as Cinematographer |
| 1968 | Monk in Europe · as Cinematographer |
| 1968 | Monk · as Cinematographer |
| 1968 | Hannah Arendt: On Walter Benjamin · as Cinematographer |
| 1965 | Not Reconciled · as Cinematographer |