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No Flak is a text animation that links the attitudes of Dada and the Theatre of the Absurd to the present moment. In the aftermath of an election where the internet offers the opportunity for rants on social media and absurd tweets from the U.S. president, the work scours past and present for bits of humor and philosophy

No FLAK is a collaboration with Richard Sullivan Born in Quebec City, living in NY, Perry Bard’s work is fueled by observations of her immediate environment and their interpretations in a global context. The space between fact and fiction, the role of technology, control of media, its proliferation in public space, play out in installations and videos presented internationally: at MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight, Toronto, Moscow, Rotterdam, IDFA International Film Festivals, at museums including Guggenheim Museum NY/Berlin, MoMA PS1, Reina Sofia, MOCA Zagreb and Bucharest. Her work was included in Sao Paolo, Montreal and Cartagena Biennials. Man With A Movie Camera:The Global Remake, a crowd sourced mashup of Vertov’s1929 film was named by Google one of the 106 most creative uses of the internet, won Honorary Mentions at Ars Electronica, Transitio_MX, Liedts-Meesen, was presented at Transmediale, File, Share media festivals, installed in over 70 venues including public LED displays in the UK and Australia. Richard Sullivan is a filmmaker working and living in New York City. His films have been shown at the Collective for Living Cinema, Millennium, Anthology Film Archives in NYC, the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid and the Ann Arbor film Festival amongst others.