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 ...

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 ...

Natasha runs the canteen at a secret 1950s Soviet research institute. This is the beating heart of the DAU universe, everyone drops in here: the institute’s employees, scientists and visiting foreign ...

“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 ...

USSR, 1950s. Natasha heads the dining room at the secret research institute. During the day, the woman is preoccupied with work, and at night drinks with her younger colleague Olga - her friends share ...