Michael Blackwood Productions is an independent production company that has produced over 150 documentaries on the arts and its contributors, with a focus on architecture and architects, art and artists, dance and choreographers, and music and composers. The collection features over 1,000 participants or subjects, and spans over six decades of documentation, beginning in the 1960s and including earlier material, through the second decade of the 21st Century. The films serve as primary documents for educational and archival purposes, as well as informative and special interest pieces for the general public. A growing number of educational institutions, libraries, museums and various media outlets are acquiring the films around the world. The company is dedicated to preserving the underlying material, and digitizing its analogue portfolio. The collection itself is one of the largest and most significant of its kind.
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Biography from TMDB.
- Director and producer
- 39 on MovieCove · 111 credits in all
Known for
What are Michael Blackwood's films like?
Across their 39 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Ideas and Society.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 39
Light 31 · Serious 8 · Dark 0
Grounded 36 · Stylized 3 · Heightened 0
Gentle 37 · Charged 2 · Intense 0
Steady 39 · Shifting 0 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 38 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 0
Slow burn 39 · Even-paced 0 · Relentless 0
Casual 19 · Engaged 20 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 38 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 0
Resolved 31 · Open-ended 8 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
- Happy2
- Bittersweet1
- Ambiguous28
- Cyclical8
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Michael Blackwood's films?
As of October 24, 2026, none of Michael Blackwood's 39 MovieCove titles is streaming on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Michael Blackwood's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted.
Filmography
111 credits, 39 with a MovieCove page.
George Segal (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
The New Clark: Bringing the Ando Experience to the Berkshires (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)
The Juilliard String Quartet: Keeping Beethoven Contemporary (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
David Chipperfield: Form Matters (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
Kenneth Frampton: A Critical Voice (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)
Post Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Structural Engineering (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)
Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)
Cecil Balmond: Visionary Engineer and Architect (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)
Christo: Wrapped Walk Ways (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)
Solid States: Concrete in Architecture and Structural Engineering (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)
Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)
Jeff Wall: Retrospective (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)
The Imaginary Solutions of Thomas Chimes (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)
Bernd and Hilla Becher: Typologies of Industrial Architecture (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)
Hans Haacke: 4 Decades (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)
Vija Celmins: 4 Decades(2007)
Richard Meier in Rome Building a Church in the City of Churches (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)
Brice Marden: 4 Decades (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)
Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2005)
Midcredits score: 39th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Ed Ruscha: 4 Decades(2005)
Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)
A Day with Zaha Hadid(2004)
Midcredits score: 30th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Midcredits score: 29th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)
Conversations with Philip Guston (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)
Bernard Tschumi: Architect and Theorist (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)
The New Modernists: Folds Blobs + Boxes, Architecture in the Digital Era (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2001)
Art in our Time: Toward a New Museum of Modern Art (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2001)
Sol LeWitt: 4 Decades(2001)
Midcredits score: 42nd percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Steven Holl: The Body in Space (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1999)
Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Victor and Sally Ganz: Discovering Eva Hesse (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1999)
Mel Bochner: Thoughts Made Visible (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1997)
Midcredits score: 84th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: A Environmental Art Duo (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1995)
Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1995)
Midcredits score: 72nd percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Robert Morris: Retrospective (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1994)
Kisho Kurokawa From Metabolism to Symbiosis (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1993)
Midcredits score: 71st percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
John Hejduk: Builder of Worlds (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1992)
Art in an Age of Mass Culture (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1991)
Midcredits score: 82nd percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Arata Isozaki II: International Projects (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1990)
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 72nd percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
4 Artists: Robert Ryman, Eva Hesse, Bruce Nauman, Susan Rothenberg (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1988)
Tadao Ando(1988)
Midcredits score: 63rd percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Mies(1986)
Midcredits score: 65th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Richard Meier(1986)
Arata Isozaki: Early work in Japan (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1985)
Empire City (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1985)
Beyond Utopia: Changing Attitudes in American Architecture (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1984)
Motherwell/Alberti (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1984)
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
We Were German Jews (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1981)
Pablo Picasso: The Legacy of a Genius (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1981)
Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1980)
Hans Bethe꞉ Prophet of Energy (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1980)
Robert Rauschenberg: Retrospective (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1979)
Working with Einstein (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1979)
Masters of Modern Sculpture Part III: The New World (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1978)
Masters of Modern Sculpture Part II: Beyond Cubism (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1978)
Masters of Modern Sculpture Part I: The Pioneers (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1978)
Jingle Bells: RFK - 1964 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1977)
Artpark People (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1976)
Claes Oldenburg: The Formative Years (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1975)
Roy Lichtenstein(1975)
Christo: Works in Progress (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1974)
The Artist's Studio: Jean Dubuffet (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1973)
Jasper Johns: Decoy (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1973)
Isamu Noguchi (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1972)
Andy Warhol(1972)
Midcredits score: 63rd percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Midcredits score: 46th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Larry Rivers (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1972)
The New York School(1972)
New Yorkers (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1971)
David Hockney's Diaries (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1970)
Jim Dine: London (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1970)
Scenes Seen with Allen Jones (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1970)
Christo: Wrapped Coast (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1969)
Katja Mann: A Life with Thomas Mann (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1969)
Monk (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1968)
Monk in Europe (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1968)
Hans Werner Henze: Summer of 1966 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1967)
You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1964)
Hütet eure Töchter! (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1964)
Broadway Express (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1961)
Career shape
A full career of 111 titles from 1961 to 2016.
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Michael Blackwood's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 68th percentile, the median of the 20 of 39 with a score; across their 29 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 53rd percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up7
- 50th to 74th8
- 25th to 49th5
Shape of the crowd
7 of their 20 titles are Divisive.
- Universally Loved1
- Divisive7
- Cult Classic3
- Crowd Pleaser2
- Mixed7
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Michael Blackwood work with?
People who share at least 2 of Michael Blackwood's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Mead Hunt shares the most, 24.
Writers
- Sasha NewmanShared titles: Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language (1999), Reclaiming the Body: Feminist Art in America (1995)See all 2 shared titles with Sasha Newman
- Barbara RoseShared titles: American Art in the 1960s (1972), The New York School (1972)See all 2 shared titles with Barbara Rose
Actors
- Kenneth FramptonShared titles: The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter Zumthor (2012), Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects (1989), Frank Gehry: The Formative Years (1988)See all 3 shared titles with Kenneth Frampton
- Andy WarholShared titles: Roy Lichtenstein (1975), American Art in the 1960s (1972), Andy Warhol (1972)See all 3 shared titles with Andy Warhol
- Gerhard RichterShared titles: Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades (2005), Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language (1999)See all 2 shared titles with Gerhard Richter
- Laurie AndersonShared titles: The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros (1993), 14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s (1980)See all 2 shared titles with Laurie Anderson
Cinematographers and editors
- Mead HuntShared titles: Greg Lynn: Archaeologist of the Digital (2014), The Artist's Studio: Carroll Dunham (2014), New York Dance: States of Performance (2010), Vija Celmins: 4 Decades (2007), Elizabeth Murray: 4 Decades (2006), Ed Ruscha: 4 Decades (2005), Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades (2005), What is Minimalism?: The American Perspective 1958-1968 (2004), Sol LeWitt: 4 Decades (2001), Frank Gehry: An Architecture of Joy (2000), Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language (1999), Louis Kahn: Silence and Light (1996) and 12 moreSee newest 12 of 24 shared titles with Mead Hunt
- Joelle SchonShared titles: The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter Zumthor (2012), New York Dance: States of Performance (2010), Georg Baselitz: Making Art after Auschwitz and Dresden (2009), Vija Celmins: 4 Decades (2007), Elizabeth Murray: 4 Decades (2006), Ed Ruscha: 4 Decades (2005), Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades (2005), Joel Shapiro: 20 Elements (2005), A Day with Zaha Hadid (2004), What is Minimalism?: The American Perspective 1958-1968 (2004), Sol LeWitt: 4 Decades (2001), Deconstructivist Architects (1990) and 1 moreSee newest 12 of 13 shared titles with Joelle Schon
- Julie SloaneShared titles: Frank Gehry: An Architecture of Joy (2000), Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language (1999), Louis Kahn: Silence and Light (1996), Reclaiming the Body: Feminist Art in America (1995), Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy (1994), The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros (1993), After Modernism: The Dilemma of Influence (1992), Mies (1986)See all 8 shared titles with Julie Sloane
- Christian BlackwoodShared titles: Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis (1990), Frank Gehry: The Formative Years (1988), Philip Guston: A Life Lived (1981), American Art in the 1960s (1972), Robert Motherwell: Summer of 1971 (1972)See all 5 shared titles with Christian Blackwood
Producers
- Wibke von BoninShared titles: After Modernism: The Dilemma of Influence (1992), Deconstructivist Architects (1990), Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects (1989), Frank Gehry: The Formative Years (1988), Mies (1986), Richard Meier (1986), A New Spirit in Painting: 6 Painters of the 1980's (1984)See all 7 shared titles with Wibke von Bonin
- Caroline KerriganShared titles: Elizabeth Murray: 4 Decades (2006), Ed Ruscha: 4 Decades (2005), A Day with Zaha Hadid (2004), What is Minimalism?: The American Perspective 1958-1968 (2004)See all 4 shared titles with Caroline Kerrigan
- Peter BruggerShared titles: Louis Kahn: Silence and Light (1996), Reclaiming the Body: Feminist Art in America (1995), Tadao Ando (1988), Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact (1985)See all 4 shared titles with Peter Brugger
- José Montes-BaquerShared titles: Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy (1994), The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros (1993), Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis (1990)See all 3 shared titles with José Montes-Baquer
Mixed roles
- Seth SchneidmanShared titles: New York Composers: Searching for a New Music (1997), Roy Lichtenstein (1975)See all 2 shared titles with Seth Schneidman