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March 26, 2009
George Manupelli
An Unauthorized History
Filmmaker, painter, collagist, activist and contrarian 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.
With support from the 47th Ann Arbor Film Festival.
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Selected Bibliography
- Dr. Chicago - A Film Trilogy by George Manupelli: Lost Masterpieces of the Avant Garde..
- Humbert, Jacqueline. 2004. Chanteuse Songs of a Different Sort. New York, NY: Lovely Music. Music Library - Recordings - Circulation Desk | CDISC 14448
- James, Richard S. 1987. ONCE: Microcosm of the 1960s Musical and Multimedia Avant-Garde. American Music 5, no. 4 (Winter): 359-390. doi:10.2307/3051447..
- Mumma, Gordon, Anthology of American Music, Inc Recorded, and Festival ONCE.. 2005. Electronic Music of Theatre and Public Activity. New York, NY: New World Records. Music Library - Recordings - Circulation Desk | CDISC 17514
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