
Director
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.
Directed

Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects
Director · 1989

A Composer’s Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera
Director · 1986

Louis Kahn: Silence and Light
Director · 1996

Empire City
Director · 1985

Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
Director · 1990

Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity
Director · 2012

Hütet eure Töchter!
Director · 1964

Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades
Director · 2005

Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture
Director · 2012

Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move
Director · 1995

Working with Einstein
Director · 1979

Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy
Director · 1994

Monk
Director · 1968

The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY
Director · 2012

Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression
Director · 2005

Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering
Director · 2008

Roy Lichtenstein
Director · 1975

Bernd and Hilla Becher: Typologies of Industrial Architecture
Director · 2007
