the video. The work also features video artist Joan Jonas in the role of town elder. In 2008, Cloud Cuckoo Land was the recipient of three grants: a Fellowship in Video from the New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA), a Finishing Funds Award from the Experimental Television Center and a Cuts and Burns Artist Residency from The Outpost. The work has been screened worldwide and was shown as an installation at Momenta Art (Brooklyn) in 2008, 303 gallery (NYC) in 2009, and Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin) in 2010. Their next video, The Story of Elfranko Wessel (2011), also featured the artists in lead roles, this time in their personae as "artist-couple" and emphasized "the home as opposed to a site of production". It received a Concordia Career Advancement Award from the Concordia Foundation, a grant issued through New York Foundation for the Arts. In 2010, The Outpost in Brooklyn, NY awarded the artists a Cuts and Burns Artist Residency to complete a component for the planned installation. In its first iteration as a single-channel video, it premiered in 2011 at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam in the Tiger Awards shorts competition. From there it was presented at IndieLisboa where it won Grand Prize for international short. In 2012, the project was given a Finishing Funds Award from The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes / NYSCA for its most recent iteration as an installation at Studio10, a gallery in Brooklyn. Their most recent project, Two Russians in the Free World (2013-2014), is a narrative about "a billionaire who doesn't collect art, and "an artist who no longer makes art". The work "maps the interconnections between artistic inspiration, love, and the marketplace." The narrative also includes Trager and Moskowitz as artists in the process of making the video. The formal device of ventriloquism appears again in this work, suggesting "a group subjectivity but also a subjugated puppet body." The question recurs throughout the work: "why and for whom do artists create?" The work was made with the support of a residency granted to the artists at Headlands Center for the Arts in Northern California in late 2011. In 2014, the project received a Finishing Funds Award from The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes / NYSCA for its presentation as an installation at Participant Inc, a non-profit gallery on New York's Lower East Side. In