Spoleto USA: A Festival Discovers America 1977 SummaryCredits 1977 / 58 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood When Gian Carlo Menotti created the Spoleto festival in 1958, he imagined it existing in two worlds, Europe and America. After years of debate as to where...
Steven Holl: The Body in Space SummaryCredits 1998 / 58 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood Steven Holl: The Body in Space explores the career of the innovative, highly renowned American architect. In this portrait Holl presents some of his most acclaimed works,...
Stirling SummaryCredits 1986 / 58 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood Featuring: James Stirling, Michael Wilford, Richard Rogers, Charles Jencks, Colin Amery, Gavin Stamp James Stirling takes us from Germany, to London, to Boston, guiding us through three of his...
Streb: Pop Action SummaryCredits 2002 / 58 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood Streb: Pop Action presents a thrilling day spent with Elizabeth Streb as she reveals the extraordinary possibilities of dance. Streb speaks to us about her method and theory while...
Summer in the City SummaryCredits 1969 / 89 min. / b&w / German with English subtitlesDirected by Christian Blackwood and Robert Leacock Written by Uwe Johnson The distinguished German writer Uwe Johnson (1934-1984) lived for several years in the 1960s on...
Tadao Ando SummaryCredits 1988 / 58 min. / color Directed by Michael Blackwood Narrated by the architect Japanese architect, Tadao Ando, roots himself in cultural visions of space, landscape, and juxtaposition. Inspired deeply by his home and heritage, Ando proposes...
Tapdancin’ SummaryCredits 1980 / 58 min. / colorDirected by Christian Blackwood In a highly entertaining overview of an authentic American art form, Christian Blackwood’s Tapdancin’ shows how the triumphs and defeats of many great dancers from the past were mingled...
The American Ballet Company: Eliot Feld Artistic Director SummaryCredits 1969 / 57 min. / b&wDirected by Michael and Christian Blackwood The American Ballet Company: Eliot Feld Artistic Director is a cinema verité account of Feld’s early choreography and the...
The Artist’s Studio: Carroll Dunham SummaryCredits 2014 / 58 min. / color Directed by Michael Blackwood Featuring: Carroll Dunham and Roberta Smith The artist Carroll Dunham moved his studio from Manhattan to the outskirts of a small village in Connecticut, not...
The Artist’s Studio: Donald Judd SummaryCredits 2010 / 33 min. / color Directed by Michael Blackwood Filmed in the fall of 1972, The Artist’s Studio: Donald Judd explores the concepts surrounding minimalism, sculpture, and geometric form. After studying art...
The Artist’s Studio: E. W. Nay SummaryCredits 2012 / 53 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood A visit to the studio of Ernst Wilhelm Nay, a remarkable, if somewhat solitary German artist, who had established his own position at age 30 among the many...
The Artist’s Studio: Jean Dubuffet SummaryCredits 2010 / 36 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood In the fall of 1973 we had an opportunity to visit Jean Dubuffet in his studio while he was at work on a detail for his musical theater piece Coucou Bazar. The...
The Artist’s Studio: Meyer Schapiro Visits George Segal SummaryCredits 1979 / 28 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood Led by Meyer Schapiro and George Segal, The Artist’s Studio gifts us with an intimate conversation between the art historian and the artist...
The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney SummaryCredits 2004 / 58 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney follows the artist and New York Times art critic, Michael Kimmelman as they discuss his...
The German-Americans: 300 Years in the New Land SummaryCredits 1983 / 57 min. / colorDirected by Mead Hunt The German-Americans: 300 Years in the New Land celebrates the tricentennial of the arrival of the first German immigrants. Made in 1983, the film pays homage to...
The Imaginary Solutions of Thomas Chimes SummaryCredits 2007 / 54 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood Featuring: Thomas Chimes, Michael Taylor, Anne d’Harnoncourt, Philip Mitsis Filmed at the Philadelphia Museum and Locks Gallery, The Imaginary Solutions...
The Juilliard String Quartet: Keeping Beethoven Contemporary SummaryCredits 2012 / 55 min. / color Directed by Michael Blackwood Featuring: Joseph Lin, Joel Krosnick, Ara Guzelimian, Ronald Copes, Samuel Rhodes An encounter with the members of the famous string...
The New Clark: Bringing the Ando Experience to the Berkshires SummaryCredits 2014 / 97 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood Featuring: Tadao Ando, Michael Conforti, Annabelle Selldorf, Masataka Yano, Maddy Burke-Vigeland, Kulapat Yantrasast, Leif Selkregg, Eric...
The New Modernists: 6 European Architects SummaryCredits 1992 / 58 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood Narration by Kenneth Frampton Featuring: Antonio Cruz, Antonio Ortiz, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Erkki Kairamo, Francoise Raynaud, Hans Kollhoff, Jacques Herzog,...
The New Modernists: 9 American Architects SummaryCredits 1993 / 58 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood Narration by Kenneth Frampton Featuring: Steven Holl, Mark Mack, Thom Mayne and Michael Rotondi, Stanley Saitowitz, Henry Smith-Miller and Laurie Hawkinson,...
The New Modernists: Folds Blobs + Boxes, Architecture in the Digital Era SummaryCredits 2001 / 58 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood Narration by Kenneth Frampton Featuring: Greg Lynn, Peter Stamberg, Paul Aferiat, Wes Jones, Douglas Garofalo, Jesse Reiser,...
