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Day
11
Month
April
Year
1967
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^Producer m
Of Movies
Scheduled

A sculptor, painter and ani-
mator, whose films have creat-
ed controversy at the New York
Film Festival, will appear and
show several of his works at
7 and 9 p.m. today to raise funds
for the Dramatic Arts Cen-
ter, a local group which fi-
nances artists in their pursuits.

Robert Breer will donate all
proceeds from his appearance
in the Architecture and Design
Auditorium to the financially
depleted Artistic Grants Progra
, of the Dramatic Arts Center.

The program will include lo-
cal film maker George Manu-
pelli's "April 21, 1918," much of
which was filmed in Ann Arbor
and features a local rock and
roll group, "The Seventh Seal,"
use of a fog machine, a cast
of students from Art 110, and
;! guest appearances by New York
poet Gerard Malanga as Baron
von Richtoven and French crit-
'ic Henry Chapter as his Ober-
kommander.

Called by the New York
'Times "a Walt Disney of under-

: iiid," Breer recently attract-
ontion in New York with
:i' •• '"^ 'ures," Liqui-

i pieces pro-
by small motors and

Producer of 14 movies since
1952, Breer stirred heated audi-
ence reaction at the 1965 New
York Film Festival, with Breer
'explaining he was trying to ex-
'ploit the possibilities of flm as
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I The presentation fs ^TeTn g
(made in cooperation with the
^University's Cinema Guild.

The m nailer nt (iTint rr' the
JDAC went to David Haxton,
student in the University's
School of Architecture and De-
s i g n, for his experiment in
painting with photographic
emulsions.

Other DAC grants have gone
to artists, musicians locally
and across the nation, includ-
ing the Ann Arbor Junior Thea-
tre, Once Concerts, Ann Arbor
Film Festival and Ypsilanti
Greek Theatre.