Pat Oleszko Opens for Bruce Conner Retrospective
Ann Arbor is in store for a rare treat on Saturday, March 28th, when Pat Oleszko, the fabulous and entertaining performance artist, returns to the Ann Arbor Film Festival. She’ll take the stage of the historic auditorium of the Michigan Theater at 7:00pm in "Gulliblurr's Travels: A Space Oddity." Her performance will precede Part I of an equally rare retrospective of the films of the late Bruce Conner.
Oleszko's performances during the early years of the AAFF are legendary and this year promises to provide another memorable performance adventure.
AAFF Founder George Manupelli
The visionary founder of the Ann Arbor Film Festival, returns to our 47th edition for a lecture and screening. Thursday at 5:10pm Manupelli takes the stage as the Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Visitor for a free public lecture and audience Q & A. This is followed by Manupelli's avant-garde masterpiece Cry Dr. Chicago, screening at 7:30pm.
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.