Empire City SummaryCredits 1985 / 89 min. / color Directed by Michael Blackwood Written by Frances FitzGerald Guided by seasoned New Yorkers, political figures, and cultural connoisseurs, “Empire City” examines Manhattan and its surrounding boroughs in order to paint...
Image courtesy of Columbia University GSAPP and the participants of the conference Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering SummaryCredits 2008 / 59 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood Filmed at an international conference of...
Ezra Pound: Canto I SummaryCredits 1968 / 9 min. / b&wDirected by Michael Blackwood Breaking a vow of silence, Ezra Pound reads his Canto I of 1917 to friends at lunch during the Spoleto Festival in 1967. Directed by Michael Blackwood Writing CreditsEzra Pound...
Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact SummaryCredits 1985 / 58 min. / color Directed by Michael Blackwood Pairing his collection of figurative paintings with an astute conversation surrounding mortality and humanity, “Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact” offers...
Frank Gehry: An Architecture of Joy SummaryCredits 2000 / 58 min. / color Directed by Michael Blackwood Frank Gehry: An Architecture of Joy illustrates the unique intertwining of art and architecture throughout Gehry’s spectacularly aeclectic career. In this portrait,...
Frank Gehry: The Formative Years SummaryCredits 1988 / 58 min. / color Directed by Michael Blackwood Narrated by the architect Narrated by the architect himself, Frank Gehry: The Formative Years explores his long standing career and unique eye. The film looks at a...
Georg Baselitz: Making Art after Auschwitz and Dresden SummaryCredits 2008 / 59 min. / color Directed by Michael Blackwood Georg Baselitz: Making Art after Auschwitz and Dresden explores the artist’s brilliant career through his 2007 retrospective exhibition at...
George Kennan: A Critical Voice SummaryCredits 1982 / 58 min. / color Directed by Michael Blackwood This film was made at the height of the US-Soviet arms race. George Kennan declared that we were perched on a “razor’s edge of precariousness”, facing...
George Segal SummaryCredits 1979 / 58 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood George Segal constructs a type of human form and vulnerability that feels rare in the world of sculpture. As we follow his process at the isolated New Jersey farmhouse that serves as his...
Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades SummaryCredits 2002 / 58 min. / color Directed by Michael Blackwood In “Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades” Curator Robert Storr takes us through the artist’s 2002 MoMA retrospective room by room, accompanied by the artist himself. The haunting and...
Germany’s Cold War Cultures 1949-1989: Re-thinking the Art History of a Politically Divided Country SummaryCredits 2009 / 60 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood During the Cold War (1949-89) in both Germanys, the creation of art, its reception, and its...
Glen Tetley: Pierrot’s Tower SummaryCredits 1995 / 58 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood Narrated by the choreographer Centered around his 1995 staging of Voluntaries, one of the choreographer’s most beautiful and moving ballets, Glen Tetley: Pierrot’s...
Greg Lynn: Archaeologist of the Digital SummaryCredits 2014 / 61 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood With the participation of Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Chuck Hoberman and Shoei Yoh. Greg Lynn, one of the leading figures in computer-aided architectural...
Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression SummaryCredits 2004 / 58 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood Meticulously setting up each cinematic shot, Gregory Crewdson has mastered a style of eerie realism intended the make the regular feel foreign. Similar to...
Hannah Arendt: On Walter Benjamin SummaryCredits 1968 / 65 min. / b&wDirected by Christian and Michael Blackwood A lecture by Hannah Arendt about the work and fate of Walter Benjamin given in January 1968 at the Goethe House in New York. A rare document. German...
Hans Bethe: Prophet of Energy SummaryCredits 1980 / 58 min. / color Directed by Michael Blackwood A portrait of the eminent Nobel Prize winning physicist who greatly advanced our knowledge of the atom. Bethe discusses the milestones of his career: his student work in...
Hans Haacke: 4 Decades SummaryCredits 2007 / 58 min. / color Directed by Michael Blackwood Hans Haacke is a key figure in contemporary art whose work intersects with conceptual, pop, minimal and land art. Haacke’s strong political, cultural and social concerns are...
Hans Werner Henze: Summer of 1966 SummaryCredits 1966 / 78 min. / b&wDirected by Michael Blackwood Hans Werner Henze: Summer of 1966 follows the acclaimed German composer to Salzburg and Berlin, documenting his rehearsals for his now famous opera, “The Bassarids”....
Hollywood’s Musical Moods SummaryCredits 1972 / 52 min. / colorDirected by Christian Blackwood “Hollywood’s Musical Moods” is a documentary about the composers who created the musical backgrounds for the movies of Hollywood’s “golden age” 1933-1956. When the...
Isamu Noguchi SummaryCredits 1972 / 30 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood As Isamu Noguchi walks us through his grand sculptures and gardens, the artist offers a unique insight into the way we, as individuals and as a collective society exist in time. Guided by...
