Flak
Directed by Ron Mann
1976Documentary30 minCanada
Made by Ron Mann when he was just 16, a gritty improvised drama and a raw glimpse of a Toronto long gone, screening for the first time in 30 years.
Synopsis
Made by Ron Mann when he was 16, Flak is a gritty improvised drama screening for the first time in 30 years as part of this retrospective. Influenced by John Cassavetes' Shadows, Michelangelo Antonioni's The Red Desert, and above all, Robert Kramer's classic film Ice, Mann's working title was Viva La Dynamite, a phrase borrowed from Anaïs Nin.
The director
Ron Mann is one of Canada's foremost documentary filmmakers and the founder of Films We Like. Since Imagine the Sound (1981) he has chronicled North American pop culture in films including Comic Book Confidential, Grass, Altman and Carmine Street Guitars.
