Michael Blackwood Productions Movies
- 1980
Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers
Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers01980HD
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...
- 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 Oliveros01993HD
The Sensual Nature of Sound portrays four New York based composers and performers in terms of their musical lives and artistic passion. Though Laurie...
- 2012
Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity
Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity02012HD
"Marking Infinity", Lee Ufan's recent retrospective exhibition at the Guggenheim charts the artist's creation of a visual, conceptual, and theoretical...
- 2006
Brice Marden: 4 Decades
Brice Marden: 4 Decades02006HD
"Brice Marden: 4 Decades" follows the renowned abstract artist as he explores his acclaimed 2006 MoMA retrospective with curator Gary Garrels. Applaud...
- 1976
Yesterday's Witness
Yesterday's Witness01976HD
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...
- 1986
Richard Meier
Richard Meier01986HD
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-...
- 1978
Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel
Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel7.41978HD
Documentary examining the life and career of producer/director Roger Corman. Clips from his films and interviews with actors and crew members who have...
- 1978
Masters of Modern Sculpture Part I: The Pioneers
Masters of Modern Sculpture Part I: The Pioneers01978HD
The first chapter in our Masters of Modern Sculpture series looks at groundbreaking work from the brilliant minds that reshaped sculptural art and ins...
- 2008
Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering
Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering02008HD
Accentuating the effects of space, light and structure, glass has become an architectural staple that encourages transparency and visibility throughou...
- 2007
The Imaginary Solutions of Thomas Chimes
The Imaginary Solutions of Thomas Chimes02007HD
The Imaginary Solutions of Thomas Chimes presents a conversation with the artist as he reminisces about his career, influences and artistic intuitions...
- 1999
Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language
Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language01999HD
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, abstraction - that most quintessentially modernist innovation - maintains a peculiarly contradictory pos...
- 1970
David Hockney's Diaries
David Hockney's Diaries01970HD
Renowned English painter, David Hockney, takes us on a visual journey as he shares with us his treasured photo diaries. Consisting of polaroids Hockne...
- 2009
Christo: Wrapped Walk Ways
Christo: Wrapped Walk Ways02009HD
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...
- 2006
Richard Meier in Rome Building a Church in the City of Churches
Richard Meier in Rome Building a Church in the City of Churches02006HD
Known for his bold, abstract and stark white buildings, American architect Richard Meier now takes on the challenge of building the Jubilee Church in...
- 2012
The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY
The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY3.82012HD
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...
- 2007
Jeff Wall: Retrospective
Jeff Wall: Retrospective02007HD
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...
- 1981
Edith Head
Edith Head01981HD
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...
- 2007
Bernd and Hilla Becher: Typologies of Industrial Architecture
Bernd and Hilla Becher: Typologies of Industrial Architecture02007HD
Working together as photographers since 1957, Bernd and Hilla Becher have become known for capturing endangered architecture quickly vanishing from th...
- 2011
Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering
Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering02011HD
"Permanent Change" looks at the history and development of plastic within the architectural world. Capturing both a series of lectures and a panel wit...
- 2004
A Day with Zaha Hadid
A Day with Zaha Hadid02004HD
While guiding us through her retrospective exhibition “Zaha Hadid Has Arrived”, the renowned architect recalls her career from its beginning, discussi...