Michael Blackwood Productions Movies
- 2004
The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney
The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney02004HD
For his five Cremaster films Matthew Barney's created a multitude of sculptural forms and structures. Recently both the sculptures and the films...
- 1976
Hollywood's Musical Moods
Hollywood's Musical Moods01976HD
In the silent film era, movies were never really silent. In the background of films that made figures like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton into...
- 2012
The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter Zumthor
The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter Zumthor02012HD
Architect Peter Zumthor lives and works in the remote village of Haldenstein in the Swiss Canton of Graubünden where he can keep the politics of...
- 1988
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser6.81988HD
A documentary film about the life of pianist and jazz great Thelonious Monk. Features live performances by Monk and his band, and interviews with...
- 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...
- 1989
Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects
Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects101989HD
Japan's establishment as an economic superpower led to a Golden Age of Japanese architecture. Six innovators stand out particularly, fusing Japanese...
- 2012
David Chipperfield: Form Matters
David Chipperfield: Form Matters02012HD
When the Tuscan city of Pisa commissioned David Chipperfield to create a master plan that would bring new vitality to this historic spot on the Arno,...
- 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...
- 1995
Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move
Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move01995HD
With the participation of famed architects such as Frank Gehry, Daniel Libeskind and Zaha Hadid, Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move provides an...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 2003
Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality
Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality02003HD
In Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality Portugal's renowned architect reviews his work with architectural historian, Kenneth Frampton. While touring his...
- 1990
Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis81990HD
"Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis" is a visually striking film portrait shot on location in Japan with the participation of the major Butoh...
- 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...
- 2012
The Juilliard String Quartet: Keeping Beethoven Contemporary
The Juilliard String Quartet: Keeping Beethoven Contemporary02012HD
Filmed during a rehearsal and performance of Beethoven's Quartet in B Flat Major, Opus 130, "The Juilliard String Quartet: Keeping Beethoven...
- 2005
Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression
Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression22005HD
Crewdson is observed and questioned closely during his work on ten new images in as many different sets.
- 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...
- 1978
Masters of Modern Sculpture Part II: Beyond Cubism
Masters of Modern Sculpture Part II: Beyond Cubism01978HD
Centered around the emergence of Constructivism, Futurism, Surrealism and Dada, Beyond Cubism takes a closer look at the artists who ignited the new...