Michael Blackwood
Biography
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.
As Director
Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
1990
Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression
2005
Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades
2005
Working with Einstein
TBA
Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy
1994
Empire City
1985
Monk
1968
Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects
1989
Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language
1999
Katja Mann: A Life with Thomas Mann
1969