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Checkerboard has produced and directed over 35 films and videos in the past 30 years. To view a description of a specific Checkerboard production, please click on one of the links to the right.

New Titles
Take a look at our new feature titles.

Landmarks in 21st Century American Architecture

Distributed Titles
Checkerboard now distributes select titles.

In Production

  • Sol LeWitt

  • Explorations in 21st Century American Architecture:

    Jeanne Gang

    Rick Joy

    Vincent Scully

    Robert Stern

Screenings
Checkerboard's films and videotapes have been screened at many festivals, museums, universities and on cable and public TV. View a select list of screenings.

 
  Index of Films
 
  A R C H I T E C T U R E
•  In Search of Clarity: The Architecture of Gwathmey Siegel
• Philip Johnson: Diary of an Eccentric Architect
• Ray Kappe: California Modern Master
• KieranTimberlake: Loblolly House (2007), Cellophane House (2008)
• Landmarks: Peter Eisenman
• Landmarks: Steven Holl
• Landmarks: Daniel Libeskind
• Landmarks: Thom Mayne
• Landmarks: Jean Nouvel
• Landmarks: Yoshio Taniguchi
• Sir John Soane: An English Architect, An American Legacy
 
  P A I N T I N G   &   S C U L P T U R E
• Yvonne Jacquette: Autumn Expansion
• Alex Katz: Five Hours
• Ellsworth Kelly: Fragments
• Roy Lichtenstein: Tokyo Brushstrokes
• Roy Lichtenstein: Reflections
• The Drawings of Roy Lichtenstein
• Brice Marden
• Kiki Smith: Squatting The Palace
 
  P H O T O G R A P H Y
• Rudy Burckhardt: Man In the Woods
• Rudy Burckhardt & Edwin Denby: The Climate of New York
• Harry Callahan: Eleanor and Barbara
• Ralph Gibson: Photographer/Book Artist
• Jan Groover: Tilting at Space
• Horst
• Duane Michals (1939 - 1997)
• Barbara Morgan: Everything is Dancing
• Aaron Siskind
• John Szarkowski: A Life in Photography
 
  M U S E U M S
• The Phillips Collection
 
  M U S I C  &  L I T E R A T U R E 
• Billy Collins: On the Road with the Poet Laureate
• Barry Harris: The Spirit of Bebop
• The Paris Review ...Early Chapters
 
  S P E A K I N G   O F   A R T
• Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism
• John Szarkowski on Ansel Adams
• John Szarkowski on Eugene Atget
• John Szarkowski on Szarkowski
 
  D I S T R I B U T E D   T I T L E S
• Forrest Bess: Key to the Riddle
• Ross Bleckner: Remember Me
 
 
  Checkerboard TV
 
  B I L L Y   C O L L I N S
On the Road with the Poet Laureate
 
 
  S T E V E N   H O L L
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Bloch Building
 
 
  P H I L I P   J O H N S O N
Diary of an Eccentric Architect
 
 
  E L L S W O R T H   K E L L Y
Fragments
 
 
  R O Y   L I C H T E N S T E I N
Reflections
 
 
  B R I C E   M A R D E N
 
 
  K I K I   S M I T H
Squatting the Palace
 
 
  J O H N   S Z A R K O W S K I
A Life in Photography