Michael Blackwood Productions Movies

  • 2004
    The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney

    The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney

    The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney

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    For his five Cremaster films Matthew Barney's created a multitude of sculptural forms and structures. Recently both the sculptures and the films...

    The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney
  • 1976
    Hollywood's Musical Moods

    Hollywood's Musical Moods

    Hollywood's Musical Moods

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    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...

    Hollywood's Musical Moods
  • 2012
    The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter Zumthor

    The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter Zumthor

    The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter Zumthor

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    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...

    The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter Zumthor
  • 1988
    Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser

    Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser

    Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser

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    A documentary film about the life of pianist and jazz great Thelonious Monk. Features live performances by Monk and his band, and interviews with...

    Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser
  • 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
  • 1989
    Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects

    Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects

    Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects

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    Japan's establishment as an economic superpower led to a Golden Age of Japanese architecture. Six innovators stand out particularly, fusing Japanese...

    Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects
  • 2012
    David Chipperfield: Form Matters

    David Chipperfield: Form Matters

    David Chipperfield: Form Matters

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    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,...

    David Chipperfield: Form Matters
  • 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...

    Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity
  • 1995
    Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move

    Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move

    Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move

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    With the participation of famed architects such as Frank Gehry, Daniel Libeskind and Zaha Hadid, Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move provides an...

    Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move
  • 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...

    A Day with Zaha Hadid
  • 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...

    Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language
  • 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...

    Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel
  • 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...

    The Imaginary Solutions of Thomas Chimes
  • 2003
    Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality

    Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality

    Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality

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    In Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality Portugal's renowned architect reviews his work with architectural historian, Kenneth Frampton. While touring his...

    Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality
  • 1990
    Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis

    Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis

    Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis

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    "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...

    Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
  • 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...

    David Hockney's Diaries
  • 2012
    The Juilliard String Quartet: Keeping Beethoven Contemporary

    The Juilliard String Quartet: Keeping Beethoven Contemporary

    The Juilliard String Quartet: Keeping Beethoven Contemporary

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    Filmed during a rehearsal and performance of Beethoven's Quartet in B Flat Major, Opus 130, "The Juilliard String Quartet: Keeping Beethoven...

    The Juilliard String Quartet: Keeping Beethoven Contemporary
  • 2005
    Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression

    Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression

    Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression

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    Crewdson is observed and questioned closely during his work on ten new images in as many different sets.

    Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression
  • 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...

    Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers
  • 1978
    Masters of Modern Sculpture Part II: Beyond Cubism

    Masters of Modern Sculpture Part II: Beyond Cubism

    Masters of Modern Sculpture Part II: Beyond Cubism

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    Centered around the emergence of Constructivism, Futurism, Surrealism and Dada, Beyond Cubism takes a closer look at the artists who ignited the new...

    Masters of Modern Sculpture Part II: Beyond Cubism