There’s a school of critical thought that believes no contextual details or backstory to a film — be they to do with its source material, the circumstances of its production, or its makers’ motivation ...

Depending on who you ask, the experiment has been going on for two years, eight years, 12 years. There have been hundreds of people, or maybe thousands involved. There is a film at its center, or ...

Director-artist Ilya Khrzhanovsky, best known for the controversial “DAU” project, will be the subject of the “Tribute To” program at the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival, with a curated retrospective of ...

llya Khrzhanovsky’s Dau was originally set to film for seven weeks back in 2006. The cinematic behemoth was meant to unfold in a living, breathing three-acre recreation of postwar Moscow, built in the ...

When Khrzhanovsky’s colossal immersive project on the horrors of the Soviet Union launched in 2019, it caused uproar in east and west alike. Now, he plans to release its ‘mother film’, to expose the ...

Russian filmmaker and artist Ilya Khrzhanovsky says the next three films from his multi-format DAU project will be released next year, and he hopes to find them festival berths. “The main movie is DAU ...

The first feature film to come out of the vast, peculiar DAU art project offers a taste of the whole endeavor's impressively oppressive Soviet world-building. There’s a school of critical thought that ...

Ilya Khrzhanovsky's wild vision employed thousands, took years to make, and recreated Stalinist-era Russia. Now it's got a trailer to prove it. Depending on who you ask, the experiment has been going ...