Ann Arbor Film Festival 2009

Filmmaker, painter, collagist, and activist George Manupelli is the founder of the Ann Arbor Film Festival. In 1963, while teaching at the UM School of Art & Design and collaborating with the ONCE Group, he established the Ann Arbor Film Festival as a counterpoint to the New York destination art world. Manupelli directed the festival for 20 years defining it with his aesthetic sense of festival as event and film as art. He made numerous films while in Ann Arbor including the Dr. Chicago trilogy. Over 400 exhibitions of his art works, films, music, and performance pieces have been held throughout Europe, North, Central and South America. He is the recipient of the prestigious Avant Garde Masters Award in 2007 from the National Film Preservation Foundation.

With the generous support of Art & Design alumna Penny W. Stamps, the Lecture Series brings a broad spectrum of emerging and established creative practitioners to engage with the University and Ann Arbor communities. The series is presented weekly at the Michigan Theater.

This event is FREE to the public!