Filmmaker Michael Blackwood, Producer of Art & Architecture Documentaries, Digitally Remasters His Unique Film Archive
Since 1966, Filmmaker Michael Blackwood has been a chronicler of American and International Art as well as Architecture, Music, Film, Dance and the Arts as a whole. Having produced over 150 films, Michael Blackwood Productions archive features over 1000+ influential participants and interviewees from David Rockefeller and Donald Trump to Zaha Hadid and Francis Bacon. The production company has embarked on a multi-year project to digitally remaster the complete works.
NEW YORK, Dec. 21, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Since 1966, Filmmaker Michael Blackwood has been a chronicler of American and International Art as well as Architecture, Music, Film, Dance and the Arts as a whole. Having produced over 150 films, Michael Blackwood Productions archive features over 1000+ influential participants and interviewees from David Rockefeller and Donald Trump to Zaha Hadid and Francis Bacon. Often times, Blackwood captured now world-famous figures early or at pivot points in their careers.
Early in 2018, the production company embarked on a multi-year project to remaster Blackwood's complete works dating back to 1966. Supervised by the filmmaker and his small team, the original film elements, negatives, and sound protection masters are being used to create a digital 2k remaster. The greater goal of the remastering is the preserve the archives as a historical document, educational tool and a source of creative inspiration for young artists, performers and architects.
Highlights from Michael Blackwood's long career include:
Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact, rare footage of the famous Francis Bacon Interview with David Sylvester. Filmed in his London Studio in 1985, the two discussed Bacon's controversial subjects and surprising style.
An extended 2004 Zaha Hadid Interview, A Day With Zaha Hadid, features Hadid discussing her work while taking the camera through the retrospective exhibition "Zaha Hadid has Arrived" at Vienna's MAK.
In the 1988 Frank Gehry Documentary, Frank Gehry: The Formative Years, the architect himself surveys his career beginnings when he experimented with his own house in Santa Monica onward to the larger recognition he found doing complex institutions and large-scale collaborative urban projects.
In the two part Thelonious Monk Documentary, Monk and Monk In Europe, Blackwood and his brother Christian Blackwood had the opportunity to spend time with Thelonious Monk and his musicians, following him in New York, Atlanta then onward to Europe.
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