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 ...

A considerable amount of ink has already been spilled attempting to explain both the critical acclaim and the public backlash to the DAU art project, and the fourteen films generated by this ...

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 ...

PARIS — It began as a biopic. In 2005, Ilya Khrzhanovsky — a young Russian director — set out to tell the story of Lev Landau, the Nobel Prize-winning Soviet physicist. The effort soon ballooned into ...

Blacklisted as "pornographic propaganda" in Russia, the epic film project also triggered headlines for its allegedly abusive production context. Here's what emerges from the "DAU. Natasha" premiere at ...

In 2018, the controversial Russian art project "DAU" scandalised Germany with its plans to rebuild the Berlin Wall and offer visitors an immersive experience of daily life behind the Iron Curtain.

As part of a colossal art project, Ilya Khrzhanovsky has made an intimately eerie examination of the banality of evil On its own terms, DAU. Natasha is a brutally queasy and stark picture of the life ...

Russian physicist Lev Landau, or Dau, (played by Greek conductor Teodor Currentzis, right) on set in ‘1938’. Photograph: Phenomen IP, 2019 What started as a film shoot evolved into a mammoth project ...

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 ...

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 ...