The New Modernists: German Architecture for the 21st Century SummaryCredits 1993 / 58 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood Featuring: Christoph Ingenhoven, Thomas Herzog, Walter Nägeli, Julia Bolles, Peter Wilson, Hilde Léon, Konrad Wohlhage, Michael Schumacher,...
Willem de Kooning Adolph Gottlieb Clement Greenberg Philip Guston Lee Krasner Robert Motherwell Jackson Pollock Harold Rosenberg Jack Tworkov The New York School SummaryCredits 1972 / 55 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood Featuring Ad Reinhardt, Adolph...
The Once and Future Pariser Platz: A Square in Berlin Comes Back SummaryCredits 1999 / 58 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood Featuring: George Kennan, Günter Behnisch, Peter Q. Bohlin, Frank Gehry, Meinhard von Gerkan, Gerhard Kallmann, Josef P. Keihues,...
The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter Zumthor SummaryCredits 2012 / 58 min. / color Directed by Michael Blackwood Featuring: Peter Zumthor, Kenneth Frampton The architect Peter Zumthor lives and works in the remote village of Haldenstein in the Swiss Kanton of...
The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers, Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros SummaryCredits 1993 / 59 min. / color Directed by Michael Blackwood Featuring: Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros The Sensual Nature of...
The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century SummaryCredits 2003 / 58 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood Featuring: Stan Allen, Wiel Arets, Michael Bell, Andrew Benjamin, Jennifer Bloomer, Karl Chu, Nigel Coates, Beatriz Colomina, Peter Cook,...
Two Artists: Andrea Zittel and Monika Sosnowska 1:1 SummaryCredits 2009 / 58 min. / color Directed by Michael Blackwood Featuring: Andrea Zittel, Monika Sosnowska, Theodora Vischer Two Artists: Andrea Zittel and Monika Sosnowska takes us to The Schaulager in Basel,...
Victor and Sally Ganz: Discovering Eva Hesse SummaryCredits 1999 / 27 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood Featuring: Sally Ganz, Victor Ganz Victor and Sally Ganz: Discovering Eva Hesse documents an intimate visit to the couple’s famous art collection in their...
Vija Celmins: 4 Decades SummaryCredits 2007 / 57 min. / color Directed by Michael Blackwood Featuring: Vija Celmins, Gary Garrels Best known for her drawings of the ocean and the galaxies of the night sky, Vija Celmins has solidified herself as one of the most...
We Were German Jews SummaryCredits 1981 / 58 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood Herbert and Lotte Strauss fled Germany in 1943, escaping their near certain fate in a Nazi Concentration camp. The brave pair take us back through time, sharing the details of their...
What is Minimalism? The American Perspective 1958-1968 SummaryCredits 2004 / 58 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood Featuring: Brice Marden, Carl Andre, Claes Oldenburg, Donald Judd, Frank Stella, John Chamberlain, Mel Bochner, Robert Irwin, Robert Morris,...
Working With Einstein SummaryCredits 1979 / 58 min. / color Directed by Michael Blackwood Featuring: Ernst Strauss, Banesh Hoffmann, Peter Bergmann, Valentine Bargmann, Eugene Wigner, I.I. Rabi, John Stachel Filmed at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies’...
Yesterday’s Witness: A Tribute to the American Newsreel SummaryCredits 1974 / 54 min. / colorDirected by Christian Blackwood Dr. Raymond Fielding the outstanding historian of the newsreels acted as consultant to Christian Blackwood for his documentary. Ray Fielding...
Yoshiko Chuma: A Page Out of Order SummaryCredits 2009 / 60 min. / colorDirected by Rima Yamazaki Filmed during Yoshiko Chuma’s 2009 staging of “Not About Romanian Cinema: POONARC” at Danspace in New York, a chapter from her on-going performance work “A Page Out of...
