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

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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