A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Edgar B. Howard
Edgar Howard is the Founder and President of Checkerboard Films, a non-profit foundation established in 1979 to document the American arts for archival and educational purposes. He has produced and/or directed over 45 films, beginning with his first profile on painter Brice Marden in 1977.
Director:
1978 Duane Michals (1939-1997)
1985 Yvonne Jacquette: Autumn Expansion
2007 Ellsworth Kelly: Fragments
2010 Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings
2011 James Salter: A Sport and a Pastime
2012 Carrie Mae Weems: Speaking of Art
2012 Eric Fischl: The Process of Painting
2014 Jeff Koons: The Whitney Retrospective
2015 Inventing Cornell Tech: The Vision
2018 On The Wings of Brancusi
2018 The Architecture and Art of Cornell Tech
2019 Frank Stella: Black Aluminum Copper
2019 James Rosenquist Up Close
???? Brice Marden
???? John Richardson: The Art of Picasso 1927 - 1973
???? Julie Mehretu: Palimpsest
Producer:
1978 Duane Michals (1939-1997)
1985 Yvonne Jacquette: Autumn Expansion
2003 Rudy Burckhardt: Man in the Woods
2007 Ellsworth Kelly: Fragments
2008 Jean Nouvel: Guthrie Theater
2008 Steven Holl: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Bloch Building
2009 Ray Kappe: California Modern Master - Forty Years of Modular Evolution
2010 Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings
2011 James Salter: A Sport and a Pastime
2012 Carrie Mae Weems: Speaking of Art
2012 Eric Fischl: The Process of Painting
2013 Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Reimagining Lincoln Center and the High Line
2014 Jeff Koons: The Whitney Retrospective
2015 Inventing Cornell Tech: The Vision
2018 On The Wings of Brancusi
2018 The Architecture and Art of Cornell Tech
2019 Frank Stella: Black Aluminum Copper
2019 James Rosenquist Up Close
???? Brice Marden
???? John Richardson: The Art of Picasso 1927 - 1973
???? Julie Mehretu: Palimpsest
???? Peter Eisenman: University of Phoenix Stadium for the Arizona Cardinals
???? Studio Gang Architects: Aqua Tower
???? Thom Mayne: U.S. Federal Office Building, San Francisco
???? Vincent Scully: An Art Historian Among Architects
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.