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Michael Blackwood
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Michael Blackwood Productions is an independent production company that has produced over 150 documentaries on the arts and its contributors, with a focus on architecture and architects, art and artists, dance and choreographers, and music and composers. The collection features over 1,000 participants or subjects, and spans over six decades of documentation, beginning in the 1960s and including earlier material, through the second decade of the 21st Century. The films serve as primary documents for educational and archival purposes, as well as informative and special interest pieces for the general public. A growing number of educational institutions, libraries, museums and various media outlets are acquiring the films around the world. The company is dedicated to preserving the underlying material, and digitizing its analogue portfolio. The collection itself is one of the largest and most significant of its kind.
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Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language

Katja Mann: A Life with Thomas Mann

Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality

What is Minimalism? : The American Perspective 1958-1968

Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades

A New Spirit in Painting: 6 Painters of the 1980's

Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy

Cecil Balmond: Visionary Engineer and Architect

Georg Baselitz: Making Art after Auschwitz and Dresden

Frank Gehry: An Architecture of Joy

The New Modernists: Folds Blobs + Boxes, Architecture in the Digital Era

Louis Kahn: Silence and Light

Bernard Tschumi: Architect and Theorist

Claes Oldenburg: The Formative Years

We Were German Jews

Robert Morris: Retrospective

Ed Ruscha: 4 Decades

Christo: Wrapped Coast