A brief introduction to The Noguchi Museum and its history, filmed on location in July 2020 and featuring images from the museum’s archives. Narration by Brett Littman, Director of The Noguchi Museum.

Footage from the film ‘Isamu Noguchi,’ 1972, directed by Michael Blackwood
Courtesy of Michael Blackwood Productions
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This film has been made possible with support from Bloomberg Philanthropies.

Production Credits
Director & Editor: Alex Meillier
Producer: Tanya Ager Meillier, Ager Meillier Films Inc.
Cinematographer: Shane Sigler
Composer: Adam Crystal
Steadicam Operator: Corey Hess
AC: Govinda Angulo
Gaffer: Ariel Nehorayoff
Sound Recordist: Tim Race
Sound Mix: Jeff Seelye, Red Hook Post
Production Coordinator: Hazel McKibbin

Image Credits
Contemporary installation views: Noguchi: BodySpace Devices, May 15, 2019 – May 2, 2021
Set for Martha Graham’s Appalachian Spring (1944)
Courtesy of Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc. / Martha Graham Resources

Photographs from The Noguchi Museum Archives
©The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum / Artists Rights Society
00:34 – 03719 – Berenice Abbott
00:43 – 03795 – Jun Miki
00:45 – 03766 – Eliot Elisofon
00:46 – 03775 – Photographer unknown
00:56 – 03765 – Rudy Burckhardt
01:03 – 144398 – Michio Noguchi
01:26 – 07283 – Dan Budnik
01:28 – 07282 – Dan Budnik
01:30 – 07286 – Dan Budnik
02:14 – 06874 – Isamu Noguchi
02:35 – 04107 – Ruiko Yoshida
02:39 – 04117 – Ruiko Yoshida
02:48 – 04381 – David Finn

www.noguchi.org