Video Outtakes

While working on this film, we made numerous visits to the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Museum and conducted many interviews with Purifoy’s collaborators and interlocutors. We also did archival research, and located numerous orphan films, home videos, newsreels, classroom educational films, and other audiovisual efemera. We included fragments of some of these in the final cut. We share here other little gems of archival 16mm footage that we didn’t use in the documentary. Many thanks to Craig Baldwin and The Other Cinema for help with our archival media search.

Civil Rights 16mm educational film (7:57)	Rubbish to Riches Los Angeles Sanitation Department 16mm film (3:05)

 

Artist and educator Adriene Jenik has been a friend and collaborator of Noah Purifoy for years. They share a love for the High Desert. Adriene’s work in computer and media art spans more than three decades. It includes pioneering projects in interactive cinema and live telematic performance. In the 1990’s, Adriene and Noah Purifoy spent much time walking, talking, and working at the Outdoor Museum. She recorded hours of video of conversations with Purifoy, which she generously shared with us, along with her memories of those times. We thank Adriene for sharing this, and offer these selects from her footage of the site some 30 years ago.

Site visit carousel
Video outtake clip (3:13)
Raw video footage

 

Audio Outtakes

In 1992, UCLA oral historian Karen Anne Mason did a series of extensive interviews with Noah
Purifoy about his childhood in Alabama, his years working as an arts administrator in California,
and his art practice both in Los Angeles and the High Desert. These clips provide some context
to Purifoy’s life in his later years. Additional UCLA archival interviews and oral histories with African-American artists of Los Angeles can be found here: