Michael Blackwood Productions Movie Trailers

Empire City Trailer (1985)

01 July 1985

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 and cultural figures.

Christo: Wrapped Coast Trailer (1969)

01 January 1969

In 1969, Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrapped 2.5 kilometers of coast and cliffs up to 26 metres along the coast of Little Bay, in Southeast Sydney, Australia.

Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language Trailer (1999)

01 January 1999

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

The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY Trailer (2012)

01 January 2012

A visit to the studio of Ernst Wilhelm Nay, a remarkable, if somewhat solitary German artist, who established his status at age 30, just before the advent of the Nazi takeover.

Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers Trailer (1980)

01 October 1980

Made in 1980, this film explores the contemporary dance scene through the work of seven New York-based choreographers.

Bernd and Hilla Becher: Typologies of Industrial Architecture Trailer (2007)

24 February 2007

Working together as photographers since 1957, Bernd and Hilla Becher have become known for capturing endangered architecture quickly vanishing from the modern landscape.

Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact Trailer (1984)

16 November 1984

In his London studio, Francis Bacon discusses his work and approach with David Sylvester. His representations of the human figure in portraits and triptychs link him to the distorted realism of Van Gogh and Picasso, who also portrayed the intensity of life that Bacon calls “the brutality of fact.

Philip Guston: A Life Lived Trailer (1982)

01 January 1982

Late in life, the artist looks back over a career that originated in social realism during the '30s, moved to the center of Abstract Expressionism, and culminated in a return to figuration.

A Day with Zaha Hadid Trailer (2004)

01 January 2004

While guiding us through her retrospective exhibition “Zaha Hadid Has Arrived”, the renowned architect recalls her career from its beginning, discussing her education, inspiration and technique.

Robert Motherwell: Summer of 1971 Trailer (1972)

01 January 1972

At work on his Elegies and Windows series, Motherwell examines his place in the Abstract Expressionist movement, which he calls the first original American movement in the "mainstream," and its practitioners "the last romantics.

Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades Trailer (2005)

25 February 2005

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

Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

A brief visit with Sam Fuller on the set of his film “White Dog” (1982).

Georg Baselitz: Making Art after Auschwitz and Dresden Trailer (2009)

01 March 2009

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

Hans Bethe꞉ Prophet of Energy Trailer (1980)

01 January 1980

A portrait of the eminent Nobel Prize winning physicist who greatly advanced our knowledge of the atom.