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Michael Blackwood

Director, Producer, Writer, Editor, Additional Credits
Born July 15, 1934Died February 24, 2023 (88 years)
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.

Known For

  • Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact
  • Monk in Europe
  • Philip Guston: A Life Lived
  • A Composer's Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera
  • Empire City
  • Tadao Ando
  • Monk
  • Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
  • Andy Warhol
  • American Art in the 1960s
  • Deconstructivist Architects
  • Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
  • Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy
  • Louis Kahn: Silence and Light
  • Pablo Picasso: The Legacy of a Genius
  • Christo and Jeanne-Claude
  • Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression
  • The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros
  • A Day with Zaha Hadid
  • Mies
  • What is Minimalism?: The American Perspective 1958-1968
  • Robert Rauschenberg: Retrospective
  • Christo: Wrapped Coast
  • Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades

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Omnibus (TV Series)
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