A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Jason Harper
Jason M. Harper
Jason is a film director and documentarian living in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn with a treasure trove of expired Fuji 125T and a cat named Miles Davis. He is currently developing a long form narrative slate. He's edited four feature documentaries - including A Kid from Coney Island (Netflix), Down a Dark Stairwell (PBS) about the police murder of Akai Gurley and an upcoming feature documentary on Kanye West called Jeen-yuhs (Netflix). He's also just completed editing a docuseries based on the book How Music Got Free (AppleTV+). In his spare time, he teaches 16mm/35mm cinematography at a cinema arts non-profit called Mono No Aware.
Director:
2024 As We Speak: Rap Music on Trial
Director of Photography:
2019 A Kid from Coney Island
2021 My Neighbor, Miguel
2024 As We Speak: Rap Music on Trial
Editor:
2019 A Kid from Coney Island
2020 Down a Dark Stairwell
2021 Don't Go Tellin' Your Momma
2021 My Neighbor, Miguel
2024 As We Speak: Rap Music on Trial
Producer:
2019 A Kid from Coney Island
2020 Down a Dark Stairwell
2021 Don't Go Tellin' Your Momma
2021 My Neighbor, Miguel
2024 As We Speak: Rap Music on Trial
Writer:
2019 A Kid from Coney Island
2020 Down a Dark Stairwell
2021 Don't Go Tellin' Your Momma
2021 My Neighbor, Miguel
2024 As We Speak: Rap Music on Trial
Editor:
2022 jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy
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.