Japan: the New Art SummaryCredits 1970 / 27 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood and Christian Blackwood Gutai, Nobuo Sekine, Ufan Lee, Jiro Takamatsu, Shingo Honda, Susumu Koshimizu, Keiji Yabe, Katsuhiko Narita Japan: The New Art explores the movements and...
Jasper Johns: Decoy SummaryCredits 1973 / 18 min. / color Directed by Michael Blackwood Narrated by Barbara Rose Jasper Johns’s Decoy is rooted inside the notions of reproduction, transformation and memory. Believing that an image gains new meaning each time it is...
Jeff Wall: Retrospective SummaryCredits 2007 / 58 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood Jeff Wall, one of the most important and influential photographers working today, walks through his 2007 MoMA retrospective with curator Peter Galassi while the two discuss the...
Jim Dine SummaryCredits 1970 / 28 min. / color Directed by Michael Blackwood Jim Dine’s compelling connection to words and writing is visceral in both his poetry and painting. The artist does not feel the two mediums are mutually exclusive, but rather that they have...
Joan Jonas: Reanimation SummaryCredits 2013 / 72 min. / color Directed by Rima Yamazaki Joan Jonas is a pioneer of video and performance art. As a beginning she studied sculpture, but in the mid-1960s she started exploring new media, and became one of the most...
Joel Shapiro: 20 Elements SummaryCredits 2005 / 56 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood Joel Shapiro, the eminent sculptor, was invited by the Musée d’Orsay in Paris to participate in their project series titled Correspondences, the aim of which was to...
John Hejduk: Builder of Worlds SummaryCredits 1992 / 27 min. / color Renowned American architect, John Hejduk, has built a riveting career around his unique and striking creations. A poet among architects and an innovator among educators, Hejduk sits down for a...
Juilliard SummaryCredits 1971 / 52 min. / colorDirected by Christian Blackwood A visit in 1971 to the classrooms of the Juilliard School, the prominent music academy, introducing some of the gifted students and many of the brilliant faculty including: Paul Mann, Peter...
Katja Mann: A Life with Thomas Mann SummaryCredits 1969 / 80 min. / b&wDirected by Michael Blackwood and Christian Blackwood with the participation of Elizabeth von Plesson, Erika Mann, and Golo Mann Katja and Thomas Mann were married for 50 years from 1905 to...
Kenneth Frampton: A Critical Voice SummaryCredits 2012 / 61 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood Kenneth Frampton is an outstanding commentator on the architecture of our time. After a short interval as a working architect in London in the 1960s, he began to...
Kisho Kurokawa: From Metabolism to Symbiosis SummaryCredits 1993 / 58 min. / colorDirected by Michael BlackwoodNarration by Kenneth Frampton Serving as a detailed portrait of the acclaimed Japanese architect, this film engages with Kisho Kurokawa, who employs Buddhist...
Larry Rivers SummaryCredits 1972 / 28 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood Narrated by the artist Larry Rivers addresses his art with a sense of primal urgency. He allows himself to find inspiration in whatever he is drawn to, driven by his non conforming notions...
Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture SummaryCredits 2012 / 53 min. / color Directed by Michael Blackwood Architects Lebbeus Woods and Steven Holl have been friends for many years. Both are theorists but Woods has been preoccupied with the pursuit...
Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity SummaryCredits 2012 / 58 min. / color Directed by Michael Blackwood In 1970 we filmed with amazingly and diversely talented group of emerging artists in Tokyo, one of which was Lee Ufan (b. 1936, Korea). The film “JAPAN: The New Art”...
Light in the West: Photography and the American Frontier SummaryCredits 1980 / 58 min. / colorDirected Ray Witlin Narration taken from the letters and journals of the photographers: Carleton Watkins, Eadweard Muybridge, A.J. Russell, William Henry Jackson, T.H....
Louis Kahn: Silence and Light SummaryCredits 1996 / 58 min. / color Directed by Michael Blackwood Narration by Kenneth Frampton With the participation of William Jordy, Jonas Salk, Aldo Rossi, Arata Isozaki, Tadao Ando, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott-Brown, Brendan...
Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers SummaryCredits 1980 / 89 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood Douglas Dunn, Kenneth King, Trisha Brown, Lucinda Childs, David Gordon, Meredith Monk, Sarah Rudner. Curated by Marcia B. Siegel. Narrated by the...
Masters of Modern Sculpture Part I: The Pioneers SummaryCredits 1978 / 59 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood Rodin, Degas, Rosso, Bourdelle, Maillol, Lehmbruck, Matisse, Picasso, Lipchitz, Laurens, Epstein, Boccioni, Duchamp-Villon, Gonzales, Brancusi....
Masters of Modern Sculpture Part III: The New World SummaryCredits 1978 / 58 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood Featuring: David Smith, Nevelson, David Hare, Lassaw, Roszak, Ferber, Bourgeois, Chamberlain, Di Suvero, Noguchi, Rickey, Barnett Newman, Tony Smith,...
Mel Bochner: Thoughts Made Visible SummaryCredits 1997 / 36 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood With the participation of Yve-Alain Bois and Richard Field. Filmed at the Yale University Art Gallery A major retrospective exhibition of the early work of Mel...
