Michael Blackwood Productions Movies

A documentary film about the life of pianist and jazz great Thelonious Monk. Features live performances by Monk and his band, and interviews with...

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...

"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...

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

This documentary explores the creation of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as designed by architect Peter Eisenman. Reaction of the German public to...

In his London studio, Francis Bacon discusses his work and approach with David Sylvester. His representations of the human figure in portraits and...

Renowned English painter, David Hockney, takes us on a visual journey as he shares with us his treasured photo diaries. Consisting of polaroids...

For his five Cremaster films Matthew Barney's created a multitude of sculptural forms and structures. Recently both the sculptures and the films...

Georg Baselitz: Making Art after Auschwitz and Dresden explores the artist's brilliant career through his 2007 retrospective exhibition at London's...

The first chapter in our Masters of Modern Sculpture series looks at groundbreaking work from the brilliant minds that reshaped sculptural art and...

Curator Robert Storr takes us through the 2002 MoMA Gerhard Richter retrospective.

Centered around the emergence of Constructivism, Futurism, Surrealism and Dada, Beyond Cubism takes a closer look at the artists who ignited the new...

Through a blend of Japanese history and Western influence, Arata Isozaki has built a career around his boldly distinctive architectural style....

This film includes important examples of the Robert Rauschenberg's diverse and extraordinary accomplishments, tracing his development from his...

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, abstraction - that most quintessentially modernist innovation - maintains a peculiarly contradictory...

While guiding us through her retrospective exhibition “Zaha Hadid Has Arrived”, the renowned architect recalls her career from its...

Documentary examining the life and career of producer/director Roger Corman. Clips from his films and interviews with actors and crew members who...

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...

Crewdson is observed and questioned closely during his work on ten new images in as many different sets.

American composers have long struggled against the momentum of the Western European classical tradition and the prestige it has held in America's...