Above: Dau. DegenerationThere comes a scene in Dau. Degeneration, the smorgasbord of a film co- directed by Ilya Khrzhanovsky and Ilya Permyakov, when a pig is painted with anti-semitic and anti-democratic slogans, dragged out of a pigsty to a boarding house, where residents (mostly members of scientific community) are having dinner, and then savagely slaughtered and hacked to bits before them, by a ruthless Kgb-agent-in-training, as blood and guts gush out. The long scene’s visceral shock says much about Dau as a project—an endurance test of sorts, which the Dau directors and cast undertook by secluding themselves for three years to film what, by now, reportedly amounts to 700 hours of footage. The saga is dedicated to the malice of Soviet Russia, but, as one of the actors present at the Berlin Film Festival where the film premiered put it, truly to how Russia never digested its past,...
- 3/4/2020
- MUBI
It is no use of hyperbole to suggest that Dau. Natasha already looks like one of the most provocative art films ever made. The first strictly theatrical feature to be released from Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s gargantuan, unprecedented Dau project (12 other films were shown at an immersive exhibition in Paris last year), it offers the viewer a kind of Westworld-style trip into a fully realized Stalinist world; a frighteningly believable place where seemingly no act is deemed unfit for the screen. Further installments are alleged to be on their way to Cannes and Venice. May God help us all.
Has a production ever been so shrouded in mystery? Substantial security and non-disclosure agreements have, for the most part, succeeded in keeping a lid on Khrzhanovsky’s universe: a living, working Soviet town (with running water and electricity) that has apparently been in operation for years; populated with hundreds of cast members who live,...
Has a production ever been so shrouded in mystery? Substantial security and non-disclosure agreements have, for the most part, succeeded in keeping a lid on Khrzhanovsky’s universe: a living, working Soviet town (with running water and electricity) that has apparently been in operation for years; populated with hundreds of cast members who live,...
- 2/28/2020
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
“Dau. Natasha,” the Russian art project-turned-movie franchise competing at the Berlinale, has triggered headlines in the local and international press over the years due to its epic scale, scenes of graphic violence and anecdotes of an allegedly oppressive work environment for women.
Hours before the film’s premiere at a presser on Wednesday, Ilya Khrzhanovsky, who co-directed “Dau. Natasha” with Jekaterina Oertel, addressed several questions from journalists about claims of harassment and a difficult on-set environment for women, saying that such accusations were “a bit fashionable” and a byproduct of the immersive nature of the film.
“I think what you’re referring to didn’t happen. It’s a rather odd project, so people go digging around, ‘Surely someone raped someone,’” he said. “This project was running for a long time and we worked with a lot of different people, and there were various conflict situations — but they all had...
Hours before the film’s premiere at a presser on Wednesday, Ilya Khrzhanovsky, who co-directed “Dau. Natasha” with Jekaterina Oertel, addressed several questions from journalists about claims of harassment and a difficult on-set environment for women, saying that such accusations were “a bit fashionable” and a byproduct of the immersive nature of the film.
“I think what you’re referring to didn’t happen. It’s a rather odd project, so people go digging around, ‘Surely someone raped someone,’” he said. “This project was running for a long time and we worked with a lot of different people, and there were various conflict situations — but they all had...
- 2/26/2020
- by Rebecca Davis and Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Coproduction Office reveals first deals on ’Dau. Natasha’.
Four more Dau features are in post-production and ready to be unveiled at film festivals later this year and next, revealed Russian director Ilya Khrzhanovskiy, the co-director of Dau. Natasha, which is making its world premiere at the Berlinale tonight (February 26).
Dau. Natasha is the first standalone feature to emerge from the controversial multi-million dollar Dau immersive art project and is co-directed by Khrzhanovskiy and Jekaterina Oertel. Oertel was originally the head of makeup and hair design on the Dau project and took on an editing and co-direction role in post-production.
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Four more Dau features are in post-production and ready to be unveiled at film festivals later this year and next, revealed Russian director Ilya Khrzhanovskiy, the co-director of Dau. Natasha, which is making its world premiere at the Berlinale tonight (February 26).
Dau. Natasha is the first standalone feature to emerge from the controversial multi-million dollar Dau immersive art project and is co-directed by Khrzhanovskiy and Jekaterina Oertel. Oertel was originally the head of makeup and hair design on the Dau project and took on an editing and co-direction role in post-production.
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- 2/26/2020
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
Coproduction Office reveals first deals on ’Dau.Natasha’.
Four more Dau features are in post-production and ready to be unveiled at film festivals later this year and next, revealed Russian director Ilya Khrzhanovskiy, the co-director of Dau. Natasha, which is making its world premiere at the Berlinale tonight (February 26).
Dau. Natasha is the first standalone feature to emerge from the controversial multi-million dollar Dau immersive art project and is co-directed by Khrzhanovskiy and Jekaterina Oertel. Oertel was originally the head of make up and hair design on the Dau project and took on an editing and co-direction role in post production.
Four more Dau features are in post-production and ready to be unveiled at film festivals later this year and next, revealed Russian director Ilya Khrzhanovskiy, the co-director of Dau. Natasha, which is making its world premiere at the Berlinale tonight (February 26).
Dau. Natasha is the first standalone feature to emerge from the controversial multi-million dollar Dau immersive art project and is co-directed by Khrzhanovskiy and Jekaterina Oertel. Oertel was originally the head of make up and hair design on the Dau project and took on an editing and co-direction role in post production.
- 2/26/2020
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
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