Michael Blackwood Productions Filmes

  • 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
  • 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
  • 2006
    Richard Meier in Rome Building a Church in the City of Churches

    Richard Meier in Rome Building a Church in the City of Churches

    Richard Meier in Rome Building a Church in the City of Churches

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    Known for his bold, abstract and stark white buildings, American architect Richard Meier now takes on the challenge of building the Jubilee Church in...

    Richard Meier in Rome Building a Church in the City of Churches
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2007
    Bernd and Hilla Becher: Typologies of Industrial Architecture

    Bernd and Hilla Becher: Typologies of Industrial Architecture

    Bernd and Hilla Becher: Typologies of Industrial Architecture

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    Working together as photographers since 1957, Bernd and Hilla Becher have become known for capturing endangered architecture quickly vanishing from...

    Bernd and Hilla Becher: Typologies of Industrial Architecture
  • 1985
    Empire City

    Empire City

    Empire City

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    A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the participation of some of New York's leading political...

    Empire City
  • 2008
    Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering

    Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering

    Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering

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    Accentuating the effects of space, light and structure, glass has become an architectural staple that encourages transparency and visibility...

    Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering
  • 2012
    Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture

    Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture

    Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture

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    Architects Lebbeus Woods and Steven Holl have been friends for many years, brought together by their creativity, philosophy and visionary...

    Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture
  • 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
  • 1975
    Roy Lichtenstein

    Roy Lichtenstein

    Roy Lichtenstein

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    In conversation with Roy Lichtenstein, critic Lawrence Alloway places Pop Art on a continuum of twentieth-century art that includes collage, Dada,...

    Roy Lichtenstein
  • 1981
    We Were German Jews

    We Were German Jews

    We Were German Jews

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    In 1943 Herbert and Lotte Strauss made the courageous decision to escape from Germany and almost certain extermination in a Nazi concentration camp....

    We Were German Jews
  • 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
  • 1980
    Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush

    Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush

    Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush

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    When Brooklyn's Kings Theater -- one of five "Wonder Theaters" in the New York area -- closed its doors in 1977, the neighborhood mourned. In a...

    Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush
  • 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
  • 2012
    The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY

    The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY

    The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY

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    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...

    The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY
  • 1991
    Art in an Age of Mass Culture

    Art in an Age of Mass Culture

    Art in an Age of Mass Culture

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    Art in an Age of Mass Culture pulls back the curtain and takes a look at the cultural climate surrounding MoMA's now famed exhibition, "High and Low:...

    Art in an Age of Mass Culture
  • 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