Checkerboard Film Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit institution established in 1979 to document, through the medium of film and video, artists who are making unique and important contributions to the American arts.
Checkerboard’s creative profiles fulfill educational and archival purposes for students, museums, libraries, universities, art historians, and collectors, in the U.S. and abroad. They represent a visual time capsule of artistic achievements spanning the last half-century.
The following clips from Checkerboard Films have been contributed to Encyclopaedia Britannica and will be live very soon:
Painting & Sculpture
- Roy Lichtenstein: Reflections on His Art
- The Pop Drawings of Roy Lichtenstein
- Roy Lichtenstein: Tokyo Brushstrokes
- Ross Bleckner: Remember Me
- Forrest Bess: Key to the Riddle
- Alex Katz: Five Hours
- Brice Marden on Painting
- Ellsworth Kelly: Early Influences
- Eric Fischl: The Process of Painting
- Kiki Smith: The Chaos of Creating Art
- Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings
- Yvonne Jacquette: Autumn Expansion
- Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism: Speaking of Art
photography
- Horst on Horst
- Duane Michals
- Aaron Siskind
- Harry Callahan
- Rudy Burckhardt Compilation: Man in the Woods and The Climate of New York
- Ralph Gibson: Photographer/Book Artist
- Jan Groover: Tilting at Space
- Carrie Mae Weems: Speaking of Art
- Mt. Lebanon Shaker Village
- John Szarkowski: A Life in Photography
- John Szarkowski on Ansel Adams
- John Szarkowski on Eugène Atget
- John Szarkowski on John Szarkowski
architecture
- Daniel Libeskind: Denver Art Museum
- Jeanne Gang & Studio Gang Architects: Aqua Tower of Chicago
- Philip Johnson: Diary of an Eccentric Architect
- Robert A.M. Stern: The History of the New York Apartment House
- The High Line of New York
- In Search of Clarity: The Architecture of Gwathmey Siegel
- Peter Eisenman: University of Phoenix Stadium
- Sir John Soane: An English Architect, An American Legacy
- Jean Nouvel: Guthrie Theater
- KieranTimberlake: Loblolly House and Cellophane House
- Ray Kappe: California Modern Master – Forty Years of Modular Evolution
- Rick Joy: Interludes
- Steven Holl: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Bloch Building
- Thom Mayne: U.S. Federal Office Building, San Francisco
- Vincent Scully: An Art Historian Among Architects
- Yoshio Taniguchi: The New Museum of Modern Art
Music, Literature & Dance
- Barry Harris: The Spirit of Bebop
- Bart Cook: Choreographer
- Martha Graham and Dance, by photographer Barbara Morgan
- Billy Collins: On the Road with the Poet Laureate
- James Salter: A Sport and A Pastime
- The Paris Review: Early Chapters