Michael Blackwood Productions Movies

  • 1980
    Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers

    Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers

    Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers

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    Made in 1980, this film explores the contemporary dance scene through the work of seven New York-based choreographers. They discuss the nature of danc...

    Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers
  • 1993
    The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros

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

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

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    The Sensual Nature of Sound portrays four New York based composers and performers in terms of their musical lives and artistic passion. Though Laurie...

    The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros
  • 2012
    Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity

    Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity

    Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity

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    "Marking Infinity", Lee Ufan's recent retrospective exhibition at the Guggenheim charts the artist's creation of a visual, conceptual, and theoretical...

    Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity
  • 2006
    Brice Marden: 4 Decades

    Brice Marden: 4 Decades

    Brice Marden: 4 Decades

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    "Brice Marden: 4 Decades" follows the renowned abstract artist as he explores his acclaimed 2006 MoMA retrospective with curator Gary Garrels. Applaud...

    Brice Marden: 4 Decades
  • 1976
    Yesterday's Witness

    Yesterday's Witness

    Yesterday's Witness

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    For the first 50 years of film history, the newsreel was a fixture in American movie theaters. From 1911 to 1967, these shorts proved an influential s...

    Yesterday's Witness
  • 1986
    Richard Meier

    Richard Meier

    Richard Meier

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    Meier guides the viewer on a retrospective of his white buildings, from private houses of the 1960s to the Frankfurt and Atlanta Museums of the 1980s-...

    Richard Meier
  • 1978
    Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel

    Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel

    Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel

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    Documentary examining the life and career of producer/director Roger Corman. Clips from his films and interviews with actors and crew members who have...

    Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel
  • 1978
    Masters of Modern Sculpture Part I: The Pioneers

    Masters of Modern Sculpture Part I: The Pioneers

    Masters of Modern Sculpture Part I: The Pioneers

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    The first chapter in our Masters of Modern Sculpture series looks at groundbreaking work from the brilliant minds that reshaped sculptural art and ins...

    Masters of Modern Sculpture Part I: The Pioneers
  • 2008
    Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering

    Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering

    Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering

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    Accentuating the effects of space, light and structure, glass has become an architectural staple that encourages transparency and visibility throughou...

    Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering
  • 2007
    The Imaginary Solutions of Thomas Chimes

    The Imaginary Solutions of Thomas Chimes

    The Imaginary Solutions of Thomas Chimes

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    The Imaginary Solutions of Thomas Chimes presents a conversation with the artist as he reminisces about his career, influences and artistic intuitions...

    The Imaginary Solutions of Thomas Chimes
  • 1999
    Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language

    Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language

    Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language

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    At the beginning of the twenty-first century, abstraction - that most quintessentially modernist innovation - maintains a peculiarly contradictory pos...

    Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language
  • 1970
    David Hockney's Diaries

    David Hockney's Diaries

    David Hockney's Diaries

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    Renowned English painter, David Hockney, takes us on a visual journey as he shares with us his treasured photo diaries. Consisting of polaroids Hockne...

    David Hockney's Diaries
  • 2009
    Christo: Wrapped Walk Ways

    Christo: Wrapped Walk Ways

    Christo: Wrapped Walk Ways

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    Wrapped Walk Ways, in Jacob Loose Memorial Park, Kansas City, Missouri, consisted of the installation of 136,268 square feet (12,540 square meters) of...

    Christo: Wrapped Walk Ways
  • 2006
    Richard Meier in Rome Building a Church in the City of Churches

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

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

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    Known for his bold, abstract and stark white buildings, American architect Richard Meier now takes on the challenge of building the Jubilee Church in...

    Richard Meier in Rome Building a Church in the City of Churches
  • 2012
    The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY

    The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY

    The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY

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    A visit to the studio of Ernst Wilhelm Nay, a remarkable, if somewhat solitary German artist, who established his status at age 30, just before the ad...

    The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY
  • 2007
    Jeff Wall: Retrospective

    Jeff Wall: Retrospective

    Jeff Wall: Retrospective

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    Jeff Wall is one of the most important and influential photographers working today. His work played a key role in establishing photography as a contem...

    Jeff Wall: Retrospective
  • 1981
    Edith Head

    Edith Head

    Edith Head

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    A light-hearted, toe-tapping portrait of the well-known 8 Oscar winning Hollywood costume designer filmed in her opulent house and garden. Edith Head...

    Edith Head
  • 2007
    Bernd and Hilla Becher: Typologies of Industrial Architecture

    Bernd and Hilla Becher: Typologies of Industrial Architecture

    Bernd and Hilla Becher: Typologies of Industrial Architecture

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    Working together as photographers since 1957, Bernd and Hilla Becher have become known for capturing endangered architecture quickly vanishing from th...

    Bernd and Hilla Becher: Typologies of Industrial Architecture
  • 2011
    Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering

    Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering

    Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering

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    "Permanent Change" looks at the history and development of plastic within the architectural world. Capturing both a series of lectures and a panel wit...

    Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering
  • 2004
    A Day with Zaha Hadid

    A Day with Zaha Hadid

    A Day with Zaha Hadid

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    While guiding us through her retrospective exhibition “Zaha Hadid Has Arrived”, the renowned architect recalls her career from its beginning, discussi...

    A Day with Zaha Hadid