Michael Blackwood Productions Movies
- 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 cult...
- 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 trave...
- 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 t...
- 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...
- 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 choreogra...
- 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 Contempor...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 archi...
- 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 frie...
- 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...
- 2005
Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades
Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades72005HD
Curator Robert Storr takes us through the 2002 MoMA Gerhard Richter retrospective.
- 2009
Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial
Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial02009HD
This documentary explores the creation of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as designed by architect Peter Eisenman. Reaction of the German public to t...
- 1969
Katja Mann: A Life with Thomas Mann
Katja Mann: A Life with Thomas Mann01969HD
- 1994
Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy
Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy61994HD
American composers have long struggled against the momentum of the Western European classical tradition and the prestige it has held in America's cult...
- 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...
- 2009
Georg Baselitz: Making Art after Auschwitz and Dresden
Georg Baselitz: Making Art after Auschwitz and Dresden02009HD
Georg Baselitz: Making Art after Auschwitz and Dresden explores the artist's brilliant career through his 2007 retrospective exhibition at London's Ro...
- 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 m...