
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.

Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects

Louis Kahn: Silence and Light

Empire City

Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis

Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity

Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades

Working with Einstein

Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture

Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy

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The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY

Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression

Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language

Katja Mann: Ein Leben mit Thomas Mann

Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality

What is Minimalism? : The American Perspective 1958-1968

A New Spirit in Painting: 6 Painters of the 1980's

Cecil Balmond: Visionary Engineer and Architect

Georg Baselitz: Making Art after Auschwitz and Dresden

Frank Gehry: An Architecture of Joy

The New Modernists: Folds Blobs + Boxes, Architecture in the Digital Era

Claes Oldenburg: The Formative Years

Bernard Tschumi: Architect and Theorist

We Were German Jews

Robert Morris: Retrospective

Christo: Wrapped Coast

Ed Ruscha: 4 Decades

Richard Meier

Robert Motherwell: Summer of 1971

Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering

Post Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Structural Engineering

New York Dance States of Performance

Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering

Solid States: Concrete in Architecture and Structural Engineering

Hans Haacke: 4 Decades

Vija Celmins: 4 Decades

The Imaginary Solutions of Thomas Chimes

Brice Marden: 4 Decades

Elizabeth Murray: 4 Decades

Richard Meier in Rome Building a Church in the City of Churches

Art in an Age of Mass Culture

Pablo Picasso: The Legacy of a Genius

Christo: Works in Progress

Christo: Wrapped Walk Ways

Artpark People

David Hockney's Diaries

Jim Dine: London

Scenes Seen with Allen Jones

The New York School

George Segal

Kisho Kurokawa From Metabolism to Symbiosis

John Hejduk: Builder of Worlds

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: A Environmental Art Duo

Arata Isozaki: Early work in Japan

Steven Holl: The Body in Space

Hütet eure Töchter!

Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial

Conversations with Philip Guston

Philip Guston: A Life Lived

Larry Rivers

Arata Isozaki II: International Projects

Mies

Robert Rauschenberg: Retrospective

Tadao Ando

Jasper Johns: Decoy

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American Art in the 1960s

Roy Lichtenstein

New York Composers: Searching for a New Music

Broadway Express

Frank Gehry: The Formative Years

Beyond Utopia: Changing Attitudes in American Architecture

Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact

Jeff Wall: Retrospective

14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s

Greg Lynn: Archaeologist of the Digital

Hans Werner Henze: Summer of 1966

The Artist's Studio: Carroll Dunham

The New Clark: Bringing the Ando Experience to the Berkshires

Kenneth Frampton: A Critical Voice

Sol LeWitt: 4 Decades

The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter Zumthor

The Juilliard String Quartet: Keeping Beethoven Contemporary

The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros

David Chipperfield: Form Matters

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

Isamu Noguchi

Masters of Modern Sculpture Part I: The Pioneers

Masters of Modern Sculpture Part II: Beyond Cubism

Masters of Modern Sculpture Part III: The New World

Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move

Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers

Bernd and Hilla Becher: Typologies of Industrial Architecture

The Artist's Studio: Jean Dubuffet

Deconstructivist Architects

A Day with Zaha Hadid

After Modernism: The Dilemma of Influence

Art in our Time: Toward a New Museum of Modern Art

Mel Bochner: Thoughts Made Visible

Victor and Sally Ganz: Discovering Eva Hesse

Motherwell/Alberti

New Yorkers

Joel Shapiro: 20 Elements

Colin McPhee: The Lure of Asian Music

Hans Bethe꞉ Prophet of Energy

4 Artists: Robert Ryman, Eva Hesse, Bruce Nauman, Susan Rothenberg