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 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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Empire City (1985)
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Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis (1990)
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Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language (1999)
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The New York School (1972)
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Victor and Sally Ganz: Discovering Eva Hesse (1999)
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Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial (2009)
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Arata Isozaki II: International Projects (1990)
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American Art in the 1960s (1972)
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Christo: Works in Progress (1974)
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Masters of Modern Sculpture Part II: Beyond Cubism (1978)
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Motherwell/Alberti (1984)
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Robert Morris: Retrospective (1994)
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Arata Isozaki: Early work in Japan (1985)
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David Hockney's Diaries (1970)
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude: A Environmental Art Duo (1995)
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Christo: Wrapped Coast (1969)
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A New Spirit in Painting: 6 Painters of the 1980's (1984)
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Broadway Express (1961)
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Mies (1986)
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Frank Gehry: The Formative Years (1988)
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A Day with Zaha Hadid (2004)
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Reclaiming the Body: Feminist Art in America (1995)
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Masters of Modern Sculpture Part III: The New World (1978)
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Robert Rauschenberg: Retrospective (1979)
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Philip Guston: A Life Lived (1982)
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Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality (2003)
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Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression (2005)
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Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects (1989)
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Katja Mann: A Life with Thomas Mann (1969)
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The New Clark: Bringing the Ando Experience to the Berkshires (2014)
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Tadao Ando (1988)
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A Composer’s Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera (1986)
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Kenneth Frampton: A Critical Voice (2012)
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Art in an Age of Mass Culture (1991)
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Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers (1980)
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Hans Haacke: 4 Decades (2007)
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Ed Ruscha: 4 Decades (2005)
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Hütet eure Töchter! (1964)
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Frank Gehry: An Architecture of Joy (2000)
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Richard Meier (1986)
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Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades (2005)
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Claes Oldenburg: The Formative Years (1975)
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Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity (2012)
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We Were German Jews (1981)
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The New Modernists: Folds Blobs + Boxes, Architecture in the Digital Era (2001)
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After Modernism: The Dilemma of Influence (1992)
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The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter Zumthor (2012)
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Deconstructivist Architects (1990)
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Kisho Kurokawa From Metabolism to Symbiosis (1993)
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Bernd and Hilla Becher: Typologies of Industrial Architecture (2007)
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14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s (1981)
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Hans Bethe꞉ Prophet of Energy (1980)
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Christo: Wrapped Walk Ways (2009)
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Roy Lichtenstein (1975)
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Monk (1968)
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Scenes Seen with Allen Jones (1970)
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John Hejduk: Builder of Worlds (1992)
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George Segal (2016)
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Mel Bochner: Thoughts Made Visible (1997)
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Richard Meier in Rome Building a Church in the City of Churches (2006)
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The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY (2012)
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Art in our Time: Toward a New Museum of Modern Art (2001)
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Jim Dine: London (1970)
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Robert Motherwell: Summer of 1971 (1972)
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Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move (1995)
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Artpark People (1976)
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Conversations with Philip Guston (2003)
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Louis Kahn: Silence and Light (1996)
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Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact (1984)
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Elizabeth Murray: 4 Decades (2006)
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Larry Rivers (1972)
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New Yorkers (1971)
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The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney (2004)
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Jeff Wall: Retrospective (2007)
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4 Artists: Robert Ryman, Eva Hesse, Bruce Nauman, Susan Rothenberg (1988)
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Hans Werner Henze: Summer of 1966 (1967)
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Monk in Europe (1968)
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The Imaginary Solutions of Thomas Chimes (2007)
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Joel Shapiro: 20 Elements (2005)
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Working with Einstein (1979)
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Steven Holl: The Body in Space (1999)
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Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering (2008)
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Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy (1994)
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Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture (2012)
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Pablo Picasso: The Legacy of a Genius (1981)
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Cecil Balmond: Visionary Engineer and Architect (2009)
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Bernard Tschumi: Architect and Theorist (2003)
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What is Minimalism? : The American Perspective 1958-1968 (2004)
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Solid States: Concrete in Architecture and Structural Engineering (2009)
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Vija Celmins: 4 Decades (2007)
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David Chipperfield: Form Matters (2012)
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The Artist's Studio: Carroll Dunham (2014)
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Post Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Structural Engineering (2010)
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Georg Baselitz: Making Art after Auschwitz and Dresden (2009)
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Greg Lynn: Archaeologist of the Digital (2014)
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Jasper Johns: Decoy (1973)
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The Juilliard String Quartet: Keeping Beethoven Contemporary (2012)
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The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros (1993)
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Masters of Modern Sculpture Part I: The Pioneers (1978)
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The Artist's Studio: Jean Dubuffet (1973)
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New York Composers: Searching for a New Music (1996)
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Brice Marden: 4 Decades (2006)
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Beyond Utopia: Changing Attitudes in American Architecture (1984)
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Isamu Noguchi (1972)
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Colin McPhee: The Lure of Asian Music (1985)
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New York Dance States of Performance (2010)
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Sol LeWitt: 4 Decades (2001)
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Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering (2011)
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