This Island
Hurwitz loved museums. In This Island, made for the Detroit Institute of Art, he revisits the role of the museum that was first explored to a different end in Museum and the Fury. What is the job of an art museum, holding one of the world’s great collections, that sits in the middle of a city like Detroit? What is the connection between a museum and its city in that age, with the great urban upheavals just in the near past.
This is a transfer from a 1-inch tape made in the 1980’s
Leo Hurwitz, Peggy Lawson, Manny Kirchheimer
Year
1970
Runtime
31 minutes
Format
16mm
Collaborators
this island
a film by
LEO HURWITZ
& PEGGY LAWSON
music by
JIMMY GIUFFRE
photographed by
MANFRED KIRCHHEIMER
and TOM HOWARD
production assistant
RICK SHANE
sound mix
BILL BLACHLY
laboratory
FILMTRONICS
produced for
PROJECT OUTREACH of
The Detroit Institute of Arts by
Leo Hurwitz Productions
all works of art
from the collections of
THE DETROIT
INSTITUTE OF ARTS
this film was made possible by
the National Endowment for the Arts
and the generosity of
BURROUGHS CORPORATION,
CHRYSLER CORPORATION,
DETROIT BANK AND TRUST,
THE DETROIT EDISON COMPANY,
FORD MOTOR COMPANY,
GENERAL MOTOR CORPORATION,
KNIGHT NEWSPAPERS and
MICHIGAN ELL TELEPHONE COMPANY.
PROJECT OUTREACH
is administered for the
Detroit Institute of Arts by
the University of Adult Education
(Wayne State University and
the University of Michigan)
this project is supported
by a grant from
THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT
FOR THE ARTS
in Washington, D.C.,
a Federal agency created
by Act of Congress in 1965