DAU is a multidisciplinary project at the intersection of cinema, art, and anthropology, which had its premiere in Paris in early 2019.
DAU Film
DAU was initially conceived as a full length feature film about the life of a genius in troubled times loosely based on the biography of the Soviet physicist and Nobel laureate
Lev Landau
Lev Davidovich Landau (russian: Лев Дави́дович Ланда́у; 22 January 1908 – 1 April 1968) was a Soviet-Azerbaijani physicist of Jewish descent who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics.
His ac ...
(nicknamed Dau).
In 2006, the film was co-produced by Philippe Bober and Susanne Marian (Essential Filmproduktion, Germany),
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
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Arte
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It is made up of three separate companies: the Strasbourg-based European Economic Interest Grouping ARTE, plu ...
(Germany),
Arte
Arte (; (), sometimes stylized in lowercase or uppercase in its logo) is a European public service channel dedicated to culture.
It is made up of three separate companies: the Strasbourg-based European Economic Interest Grouping ARTE, plu ...
Eurimages
Eurimages is a cultural support fund of the Council of Europe, established in 1989. Eurimages promotes independent filmmaking by providing financial support to feature-length fiction, animation, and documentary films. In doing so, it encourages ...
Film i Väst
Film i Väst (English: "Film in West") is a film company located in Trollhättan, Sweden, nicknamed "Trollywood"), founded in 1992 by the Älvsborg County Council. Lars von Trier used its facilities in his movies, such as ''Dogville'' and ''Mand ...
(Sweden), Hubert Bals Fund (Netherlands), Ukrainian Ministry of Culture, and X Filme Creative Pool Entertainment GmbH (Germany). The funding provided by the Russian Ministry of Culture was recalled in 2015, and was returned to the Ministry.
After the pre-production in 2006, the filming began in 2007 and took place in
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
(Russia) and
Kharkiv
Kharkiv ( uk, wikt:Харків, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine.Serguei Adoniev.
The project unfolded on the territory of the largest shooting location in Europe spanning 12,000m2, named the Institute, built on the site of the former Dynamo Aquatic Stadium in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
How the location functioned and was used in the filming has suggested parallels between DAU and such projects as Synecdoche, New York and
The Truman Show
''The Truman Show'' is a 1998 American psychological satirical comedy-drama film directed by Peter Weir, produced by Scott Rudin, Andrew Niccol, Edward S. Feldman, and Adam Schroeder, and written by Niccol. The film stars Jim Carrey as Tr ...
.
The film set was functioning 24/7, regardless if shooting was occurring. The DAU cinematographer Jürgen Jürges designed a special lighting system that allowed shooting at any point without setting up lighting equipment.
The territory of the Institute comprised laboratories, newspaper editorial office, a canteen, residential buildings, the First Department, a hairdresser's, maintenance staff premises; the employees were paid in Soviet rubles. For filming, 40,000 costume elements were produced and purchased. The architecture, costumes, everyday items, food created a phantasmagorical reconstruction of the Soviet era of the 1930s to 1960s, where the characters lived.
In November 2011 the shooting was finished and the location was destroyed, the destruction itself becoming a part of the story The survived items(small and large props, artifacts, costumes) have been preserved and used in other DAU contexts.
Characters
The auditions for DAU involved 392,000 non-actors. Around 200-300 non-actors lived on-set at any one time and around 400 were filmed including scientists, musicians, artists, composers, religious leaders and philosophers, as well as waitresses, cleaners, secret police officers, cooks and hairdressers.
The unscripted process was filmed intermittently from October 2009 to November 2011 during which no modern clothes including underwear, no modern sanitary products or any other modern objects or vocabulary were allowed on the set and period costume, make-up and hairstyles were required from everyone including the crew, regardless if shooting was occurring.
With no script or takes, the characters acted and reacted in the meticulously designed circumstances, sometimes staying on set for months.
'Placed in a real replica of a Soviet institute, with its authentic smells, clothes and interiors, social behavior and social dispositions, the hero feels placed in a semi-real space-time. And it’s the actor who becomes the first spectator of "DAU", finding themselves between the immanence of their own presence in the present and the absurdity of someone else's, but reconstructed time and space'.
Everyone, with the exception of Dau (conductor
Teodor Currentzis
Teodor Currentzis ( el, Θεόδωρος Κουρεντζής ; born 24 February 1972) is a Greek-Russian conductor, musician and actor.
Biography
Currentzis was born in Athens, and at age 4 began to take piano lessons. At age 7, he began vio ...
), his wife (actress Radmila Schegoleva), their son (as young adult - musician
Nikolai Voronov
Nikolay Nikolayevich Voronov (; - 28 February 1968) was a Soviet military leader, chief marshal of the artillery (1944), and Hero of the Soviet Union (7 May 1965). He was commander of artillery forces of the Red Army from 1941 until 1950. Voro ...
), and Krupitsa, director of the institute from 1938 to 1953 (theater director
Anatoly Vasiliev
Anatoly Alexandrovitch Vasiliev (russian: Анато́лий Алекса́ндрович Васи́льев, link=no; born May 4, 1942, Penza Oblast) is a Russian theatre director. He is artistic director of the Moscow Theatre "School of Dramat ...
), lived in the Institute under their own names. Their real biographies were adapted to Soviet realities.
There were two scientific departments at the Institute. In the theoretical department contemporary theoretical physicists, neuroscientists and biologists were carrying out their research, including Profs. Nobel laureate
David Gross
David Jonathan Gross (; born February 19, 1941) is an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. Along with Frank Wilczek and David Politzer, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of asymptotic freedom. ...
Shing-Tung Yau
Shing-Tung Yau (; ; born April 4, 1949) is a Chinese-American mathematician and the William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University. In April 2022, Yau announced retirement from Harvard to become Chair Professor of mathem ...
,
Nikita Nekrasov
Nikita Alexandrovich Nekrasov (russian: Ники́та Алекса́ндрович Некра́сов; born 10 April 1973) is a mathematical and theoretical physicist at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics and C.N.Yang Institute for Th ...
Samson Shatashvili
Samson Lulievich Shatashvili (Georgian: სამსონი შათაშვილი, Russian: Самсон Лулиевич Шаташвили, born February 1960) is a theoretical and mathematical physicist who has been working at Trinity ...
Alexei Blinov
Alexei Blinov (10 July 1965 - 26 November 2019 WRD December 5th, 2019.) was a
< ...
, media and performance contemporary artists were conducting their experiments. Among the employees and the guests of the Institute there were
Marina Abramović
Marina Abramović ( sr-Cyrl, Марина Абрамовић, ; born November 30, 1946) is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist. Her work explores body art, endurance art, feminist art, the relationship between the performer and audi ...
,
Carsten Höller
Carsten Höller (born December 1961) is a German artist. He lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden.Alice Rawsthorn (January 2012)"Cliff Hanger - The Ghanaian home of artists Carsten Höller and Marcel Odenbach goes above—and beyond" ''W Magazi ...
Peter Sellars
Peter Sellars (born September 27, 1957) is an American theatre director, noted for his unique contemporary stagings of classical and contemporary operas and plays. Sellars is professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where ...
,
Romeo Castellucci
Romeo Castellucci (born August 4, 1960) is an Italian theatre director, playwright, artist and designer. Since the 1980s he has been one part of the European theatrical avant-garde.
Biography
Romeo Castellucci graduated with a degree in paintin ...
Guillermo Arévalo
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In 1982, Arévalo co-founded Aplicación de Medicina Tradicional (AMETRA), an organizat ...
and others.
The Institute hosted conferences and seminars on quantum physics, string theory and loop quantum gravity, neuroscience, as well as experiments in areas beyond traditional scientific knowledge, such as orgone energy, teleportation and human superpowers.
The genre of the project. Film material and products
The duration of the Institute material is 700 hours of 35mm-film.
The original idea of Ilya Khrzhanovsky to create a film about Lev Landau transformed, along the line, into a large-scale study of human nature, that continues to this day. In addition to the mentioned participants, the project involved, at various stages: artist
Philippe Parreno
Philippe Parreno (born 1964 in Oran, Algeria) is a contemporary French artist who lives and works in Paris. His works include films, installations, performances, drawings, and text.
Parreno focuses on expanding ideas of time and duration thro ...
, designer
Rei Kawakubo
(b. 1942) is a Japanese fashion designer based in Tokyo and Paris. She is the founder of Comme des Garçons and Dover Street Market. In recognition of the notable design contributions of Kawakubo, an exhibition of her designs entitled '' Rei ...
, musicians
Robert Del Naja
Robert Del Naja (; born 21 January 1965), also known as 3D, is a British artist, musician, singer and songwriter. He emerged as a graffiti artist and member of the Bristol collective the Wild Bunch, and later as a founding member and sole cons ...
(
Massive Attack
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The debut Massive Attack album '' Blue Lines'' was releas ...
Vladimir Martynov
Vladimir Ivanovich Martynov (Russian: Владимир Иванович Мартынов) (Moscow, 20 February 1946) is a Russian composer, known for his compositions in the concerto, orchestral music, chamber music, and choral music genres.
...
,
Tatiana Grindenko
Tatiana Grindenko (russian: Татьяна Тихоновна Гринденко; born 1946) is a Russian violinist and Meritorious Artist who graduated from the Moscow Conservatory and then became an assistant to Yuri Yankelevich. She is a foun ...
, Arca, Leonid Fedorov, Vladimir Volkov and many more.
There are disputes regarding the genre of the project: “Is it possible to create a work in the genre of an entire culture? Culture incorporates music, cinema, literature, painting, science, office work, all ways of social behavior and interpersonal communication. Khrzhanovsky created a work in the genre of culture of the 1930s–60s.”; “the DAU project, therefore, is not a Gesamtkunstwerk, but a work in the Gesamtkunstwerk genre, i.e. a kind of anti-Gesamtkunstwerk”; “perhaps it is more correct to call it the most ambitious experiment in the field of the theater”; “the sprawling immersive-theater/film/installation project”; “a striking combination of documentary and feature films, artistic fiction and the truth of life, the imaginary and the real, the past and the present”; “somewhere between a behavioral experiment, a cinematic cycle and an art installation”; “a total artwork”; “this phenomenon can be called the territory of memory - individual, collective, historical and artistic”.
All of that said, a range of cinematic products have been created out of the DAU film material by various directors. The project has also taken
other forms.
Movies, series, video performances
13 films of various genres were presented at the premiere of the project in Paris in 2019.
The movies were voiced by Gérard Depardieu,
Willem Dafoe
Willem James Dafoe (; born July 22, 1955) is an American actor. He is the recipient of various accolades, including the Volpi Cup for Best Actor, in addition to receiving nominations for four Academy Awards, four Screen Actors Guild Awards, t ...
,
Isabelle Adjani
Isabelle Yasmina Adjani ; born 27 June 1955) is a French actress and singer of Algerian and German descent. She is the only performer in history to win five César Awards for acting; she won the Best Actress award for '' Possession'' (1981), '' ...
,
Fanny Ardant
Fanny Marguerite Judith Ardant (born 22 March 1949) is a French actress and film director. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two César Awards and a Lumières Award.
Early life
Ardant was born in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, ...
,
Isabelle Huppert
Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert (; born 16 March 1953) is a French actress. Described as "one of the best actresses in the world", she is known for her portrayals of cold and disdainful characters devoid of morality. She is the recipient of sev ...
Iris Berben
Iris Renate Dorothea Berben (, born 12 August 1950) is a German actress and voice actress.
Biography
Berben was born in Detmold, North Rhine-Westphalia. She grew up in Hamburg, where her parents ran a restaurant.
Berben has appeared in about ...
,
Hanna Schygulla
Hanna Schygulla (; born 25 December 1943) is a German actress and chanson singer associated with the theater and film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. She first worked for Fassbinder in 1965 and became an active participant in the New German ...
,
Barbara Sukowa
Barbara Sukowa (; born 2 February 1950) is a German actress of screen and stage and singer. She has received three German Film Awards for Best Actress, three Bavarian Film Awards, Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, Venice Film Festival ...
,
Katharina Thalbach
Katharina Thalbach (; actually ''Katharina Joachim genannt Thalbach''; born 19 January 1954) is a German actress and stage director. She played theatre at the Berliner Ensemble and at the Volksbühne Berlin, and was actress in the film ''The T ...
Heike Makatsch
Heike Makatsch (; born 13 August 1971) is a German actress. She is known for her roles as Lisa Addison in ''Resident Evil'' (2002), Mia in ''Love Actually'' (2003), and as Liesel's mother in ''The Book Thief'' (2013).
Early life
Makatsch was bo ...
, Toni Garrn, Lilith Stangenberg, Kathrin Angerer,
Palina Rojinski
Palina Rojinski ( Rozhinskaya, russian: Палина Рожинская; born 21 April 1985) is a Russian-German television presenter and actress based in Germany.
From 2009 to 2011, she hosted ''MTV Home'' on MTV Germany, and since 2011 has hos ...
,
Vicky Krieps
Vicky Krieps (born 4 October 1983) is a Luxembourgish-German actress. She has appeared in a number of American, Luxembourgish, French and German productions. Krieps' breakthrough role was in Paul Thomas Anderson's Academy Award-winning film ''Pha ...
,
Jella Haase
Jella Haase (born 27 October 1992) is a German actress. She began acting in theatre at a very early age. Her film credits include ', '' Fack ju Göhte'' and '' Combat Girls''. She has also appeared on the television shows ''Polizeiruf 110'' an ...
,
Lars Eidinger
Lars Eidinger (; born 21 January 1976) is a German actor. Eidinger started his career at Deutsches Theater in 1997. Before his breakthrough, he played minor roles in German television shows like ''Schloss Einstein'' (2002) and '' Berlin, Berlin ...
,
Martin Wuttke
Martin Wuttke (born 8 February 1962) is a German actor and director who achieved international recognition for his portrayal of Adolf Hitler in the 2009 film ''Inglourious Basterds''.
Life and career
Wuttke began his actor training at the colleg ...
Bela B
Dirk Albert Felsenheimer (born 14 December 1962),''Die Ärzte. Ein überdimensionales Meerschwein frisst die Erde auf'', p. 80 better known under his stage name Bela B (formerly Bela B.), is a German musician, songwriter, actor and author, b ...
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Bill Kaulitz
Bill Kaulitz (born 1 September 1989), also known mononymously as Billy for his solo act, is a German singer and songwriter. He is best known for his work as the lead singer of pop rock band Tokio Hotel.
Early life
Bill Kaulitz was born on 1 Se ...
Marc Hosemann
Marc Hosemann (born 20 August 1970 in Hamburg), is a German actor.
Filmography (selection)
* '' Alles außer Mord'' (1996, TV)
* '' Short Sharp Shock'' (1998)
* '' Long Hello and Short Goodbye'' (1999)
* ''Investigating Sex'' (2001)
* '' Ja ...
,
Frederick Lau
Frederick Lau (born 17 August 1989) is a German actor.
Biography
He grew up and still lives in Berlin-Steglitz
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Tahar Rahim
Tahar Rahim (born 4 July 1981) is a Franco-Algerian actor. He is known for his starring role as Malik El Djebena in the 2009 award-winning French movie '' A Prophet'' by Jacques Audiard, FBI Agent Ali Soufan in '' The Looming Tower'', Judas in ...
Lou de Laâge
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,
Éric Cantona
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,
Pascal Greggory
Pascal Greggory (born 8 September 1954) is a French actor.
Personal life
Greggory is openly gay. He had long-term relationships with Patrice Chéreau and François-Marie Banier.
Filmography
* '' Les Sœurs Brontë'' (1979) by André Téchiné
* ...
, and
Amira Casar
Amira Casar is a British-born actress who grew up in England, Ireland, and France.
Early life
Amira is the daughter of a Kurdish father and a Russian mother. She was born in London and was subsequently raised in England, Ireland, and France. Sh ...
.
A number of other products are in the process of post-production.
"Mother" film
In particular, the "mother" film, focused on the storyline of Dau himself, with the Institute material creating its background setting, has not been released yet as of 2022.
Dau. Digital
Khrzhanovsky claims that the movies are just trailers,Радио Долин. «Разрушения советского чудовища не произошло». Илья Хржановский /ref> of what he calls the main product - Dau.Digital, an interactive online platform presenting all 700 hours of rushes where a user is navigated by the tags and can structure their own narrative. This product was also presented to the visitors of the Paris premiere.
Books
Dialogues of characters
Transcribed conversations of characters recorded during the shooting as well as off shooting were available at the Paris premiere.
DAU Document
''Thames & Hudson'' prepared the publication of ''DAU Document'', collecting stills from all footage, on-set photographs shot with Soviet-era Leica cameras (selected from 1.5 million images) and results of the scientific experiments carried out in the film. Essays exploring themes such as the nature of community, power, love, altered states of consciousness and violence intersperse the visual chronological account. The final section catalogues the 80,000 items of period clothing and props as well as the characters who populate the project, where frames from all the footage are presented in chronological order.
Comme des Garçons × DAU Institute 1938-1952
In 2018
Comme des Garçons
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collaborated with DAU project to release an album of photographs as part of their annual initiative of publishing the work of artists and photographers.
Les Salons DAU
In 2018 ''The DAU Rooms at Le Châtelet'' special edition was released as ‘a gift to the city of Paris’ containing the works of
Bakst Bakst is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Isaac Moses Bakst (d. 1882), Imperial Russian educator
* Léon Bakst (1866–1924), Russian painter and scene and costume designer
* Ryszard Bakst
Ryszard Bakst (4 April 1926 &ndas ...
,
Larionov Larionov (russian: Ларио́нов; masculine) or Larionova (; feminine) is a common Russian surname shared by the following people:
* Anna Larionova (born 1975), retired Russian Olympic alpine skier
*Dmitry Larionov (born 1985), Russian slalom c ...
and
Natalia Goncharova
Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova (russian: Ната́лья Серге́евна Гончаро́ва, p=nɐˈtalʲjə sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvnə ɡənʲtɕɪˈrovə; 3 July 188117 October 1962) was a Russian avant-garde artist, painter, costume designe ...
next to the fragments of DAU installations with forewords by the
Mayor of Paris
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Anne Hidalgo
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Hidalgo served as First Deputy Mayor of Paris ...
Complex installations have been an integral part of the project since the Institute functioned during the shooting, creating immersive experiences for visitors and residents.
Berlin. Preparation of the release and its cancellation
For the film screening in Berlin, it was planned to create a replica of the Berlin Wall; the event was supposed to be the first in a series Dau. Freedom (Berlin) - Dau. Equality (Paris) - Dau. Fraternity (London), and was planned with the support and participation of directors
Tom Tykwer
Tom Tykwer (; born 23 May 1965) is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, and composer. He is best known internationally for directing the thriller films '' Run Lola Run'' (1998), '' Heaven'' (2002), '' Perfume: The Story of a Murderer ...
and
Romeo Castellucci
Romeo Castellucci (born August 4, 1960) is an Italian theatre director, playwright, artist and designer. Since the 1980s he has been one part of the European theatrical avant-garde.
Biography
Romeo Castellucci graduated with a degree in paintin ...
, artists
Marina Abramović
Marina Abramović ( sr-Cyrl, Марина Абрамовић, ; born November 30, 1946) is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist. Her work explores body art, endurance art, feminist art, the relationship between the performer and audi ...
,
Carsten Höller
Carsten Höller (born December 1961) is a German artist. He lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden.Alice Rawsthorn (January 2012)"Cliff Hanger - The Ghanaian home of artists Carsten Höller and Marcel Odenbach goes above—and beyond" ''W Magazi ...
and
Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei (, ; born 28 August 1957) is a Chinese contemporary artist, documentarian, and activist. Ai grew up in the far northwest of China, where he lived under harsh conditions due to his father's exile. As an activist, he has been openly c ...
, musicians
Teodor Currentzis
Teodor Currentzis ( el, Θεόδωρος Κουρεντζής ; born 24 February 1972) is a Greek-Russian conductor, musician and actor.
Biography
Currentzis was born in Athens, and at age 4 began to take piano lessons. At age 7, he began vio ...
Robert Del Naja
Robert Del Naja (; born 21 January 1965), also known as 3D, is a British artist, musician, singer and songwriter. He emerged as a graffiti artist and member of the Bristol collective the Wild Bunch, and later as a founding member and sole cons ...
and
Massive Attack
Massive Attack are an English trip hop collective formed in 1988 in Bristol by Robert "3D" Del Naja, Adrian "Tricky" Thaws, Andrew "Mushroom" Vowles and Grant "Daddy G" Marshall.
The debut Massive Attack album '' Blue Lines'' was releas ...
Monika Grütters
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, the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. The concept was to rebuild a part of the Berlin wall to create ‘a closed-off mini-state, complete with visa checks for visitors’. Upon entering the venue, visitors were to undergo a body search procedure by the security composed of the Israeli military men; on this closed territory visitors were to immerse into performances and concerts of artists including
Romeo Castellucci
Romeo Castellucci (born August 4, 1960) is an Italian theatre director, playwright, artist and designer. Since the 1980s he has been one part of the European theatrical avant-garde.
Biography
Romeo Castellucci graduated with a degree in paintin ...
,
Carsten Höller
Carsten Höller (born December 1961) is a German artist. He lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden.Alice Rawsthorn (January 2012)"Cliff Hanger - The Ghanaian home of artists Carsten Höller and Marcel Odenbach goes above—and beyond" ''W Magazi ...
,
Massive Attack
Massive Attack are an English trip hop collective formed in 1988 in Bristol by Robert "3D" Del Naja, Adrian "Tricky" Thaws, Andrew "Mushroom" Vowles and Grant "Daddy G" Marshall.
The debut Massive Attack album '' Blue Lines'' was releas ...
and in particular a performance of
Marina Abramović
Marina Abramović ( sr-Cyrl, Марина Абрамовић, ; born November 30, 1946) is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist. Her work explores body art, endurance art, feminist art, the relationship between the performer and audi ...
and
Teodor Currentzis
Teodor Currentzis ( el, Θεόδωρος Κουρεντζής ; born 24 February 1972) is a Greek-Russian conductor, musician and actor.
Biography
Currentzis was born in Athens, and at age 4 began to take piano lessons. At age 7, he began vio ...
, whose participants were to go through the washing procedure (a reference to the gas chambers under the guise of a shower in concentration camps). The event was supposed to end with a ritual destruction of The Wall with each participant to be offered to carry a piece of the wall with them.
In September 2018 the city authorities cancelled the event, referring to safety and technical issues. The cancellation was followed by a discussion:
Fanny Ardant
Fanny Marguerite Judith Ardant (born 22 March 1949) is a French actress and film director. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two César Awards and a Lumières Award.
Early life
Ardant was born in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, ...
,
Isabelle Adjani
Isabelle Yasmina Adjani ; born 27 June 1955) is a French actress and singer of Algerian and German descent. She is the only performer in history to win five César Awards for acting; she won the Best Actress award for '' Possession'' (1981), '' ...
,
Robert del Naja
Robert Del Naja (; born 21 January 1965), also known as 3D, is a British artist, musician, singer and songwriter. He emerged as a graffiti artist and member of the Bristol collective the Wild Bunch, and later as a founding member and sole cons ...
,
Willem Dafoe
Willem James Dafoe (; born July 22, 1955) is an American actor. He is the recipient of various accolades, including the Volpi Cup for Best Actor, in addition to receiving nominations for four Academy Awards, four Screen Actors Guild Awards, t ...
Hanna Schygulla
Hanna Schygulla (; born 25 December 1943) is a German actress and chanson singer associated with the theater and film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. She first worked for Fassbinder in 1965 and became an active participant in the New German ...
,
Sasha Waltz
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People
* Sasha (name), includes list of people with the name and the variants Sascha or Sacha
Musicians
* Sasha (DJ) (born 1969), born Alexander Coe
* Sasha (German singer) (born 1972), born Sas ...
,
Tom Tykwer
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and other artists, directors, curators, politicians, producers spoke publicly in support of the project and against the opinion that it was not acceptable as Berliners ‘had had this Wall for enough time’.
Release in Paris
Films created from the material filmed in the Institute were released for the first time in Paris between January 25 and February 17, 2019, with the support of the City Hall of Paris and executive producer Martine d'Anglejan-Chatillon. Visitors of the Paris event also had the opportunity to watch actual rushes, exploring Dau.Digital.
The release was hosted by Châtelet Theater and
Théâtre de la Ville
(meaning the City Theatre) is one of the two theatres built in the 19th century by Baron Haussmann at Place du Châtelet, Paris, the other being the Théâtre du Châtelet. It is located at 2, place du Châtelet in the 4th arrondissement.
Incl ...
that both became venues for Serguey Diaghilev’s ''Russian Seasons'' a century earlier, as well as by
Centre Pompidou
The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou ( en, National Georges Pompidou Centre of Art and Culture), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of ...
that housed an installation reconstructing an apartment at the Institute and inhabited by the characters of the project. The museum also provided contemporary art works by Soviet and Russian artists of 1950s-2000s from its collection “Kollektsia!" (2016) to be used as a part of an installation in the theatres. Among the exhibited works there were those by Oscar Rabin,
Grisha Bruskin
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He was born in Moscow. Between 1963 and 1968, he studied at the Moscow Textile Institute (Art Department). In 1969, he became a member of ...
Erik Bulatov
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and others.
The initial plan to connect the two theaters with a bridge did not come true, and the theatre buildings and the Pompidou Museum building were connected by a projection of red light lines forming a triangle instead - an installation was inspired by the Russian avant-garde of the 1920s. The connection between the project, the Paris premiere in particular, and the art of avant-garde was also created by the design of the space in the Châtelet Theater by the artists Olga Gurevich, Alexandra Smolina, Boris Shapovalov.
To access the event visitors had to obtain a DAU visa - 6 hours, 24 hours or an unlimited one, When “applying” for a visa, the visitor was asked to answer personal questions (“Have you felt used in your relationships”?).
The space of the theaters were was divided into zones (“Motherhood”, “Communism”, “Revolution”, etc.).
Screenings of the films (without titles, but numbered ), conferences, performances, concerts, shamanic rituals were simultaneously held at the venues; it was not possible to learn about the schedule in advance - the principle of uncertainty and constant metamorphosis, offering the visitor an unexpected encounter rather than regular format and experience, became part of the concept of the project.
In accordance with this concept and as part of the project, performances by renowned artists were held incognito, without posters or ads.
During Paris events,
Théâtre du Châtelet
The Théâtre du Châtelet () is a theatre and opera house, located in the place du Châtelet in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France.
One of two theatres (the other being the Théâtre de la Ville) built on the site of a ''châtelet'', a ...
and
Théâtre de la Ville
(meaning the City Theatre) is one of the two theatres built in the 19th century by Baron Haussmann at Place du Châtelet, Paris, the other being the Théâtre du Châtelet. It is located at 2, place du Châtelet in the 4th arrondissement.
Incl ...
hosted
Teodor Currentzis
Teodor Currentzis ( el, Θεόδωρος Κουρεντζής ; born 24 February 1972) is a Greek-Russian conductor, musician and actor.
Biography
Currentzis was born in Athens, and at age 4 began to take piano lessons. At age 7, he began vio ...
and MusicAeterna, Jazz Aeterna, and TrigolOS, musicians Mikhail Rudy,
Tatiana Grindenko
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,
Vladimir Martynov
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...
, Vladimir Tarasov, Mikhail Mordvinov, Dmitry Uvarov, Vangelino Currentzis, Marko Nikodievich, Leonid Fedorov, Vladimir Volkov, singer
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Robert Del Naja
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(
Massive Attack
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), and Brian Eno, who developed a bespoke acoustic architecture for DAU. Also, performances of
Sasha Waltz
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and her dance troupe, as well as installations of
Romeo Castellucci
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Biography
Romeo Castellucci graduated with a degree in paintin ...
and
Philippe Parreno
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, took place in different DAU spaces. Writer
Jonathan Littell
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, futurologist Real Miller, professor of physics and string theorist
Nikita Nekrasov
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, writer and social critic
Evgeny Morozov
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, photographer
Reza Deghati
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Reza was born in Tabriz, Iran. He is of Azerbaijani origin.Sonia Contera, writer Alexander Etkind, and others took part in the DAU conferences in Paris.
The musical installations shaping the event's soundscape, produced by Vangelino Kurenzis and Damien Quintard, included works by Brian Eno and
Robert del Naja
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.
An important part of the visitors' experience was also The Shitty Hole bar, buffets (in particular the "porn buffet") and a canteen with a Soviet menu where prices changed randomly throughout the day.
Another element of the installation was a souvenir shop, referring to Soviet village shops (cans, cigarettes, sink plungers, petroleum lamps, condoms, rolling pins, etc.), also selling the printed products of the project — photographs, books-transcriptions of the characters’ conversations.
At the
Théâtre de la Ville
(meaning the City Theatre) is one of the two theatres built in the 19th century by Baron Haussmann at Place du Châtelet, Paris, the other being the Théâtre du Châtelet. It is located at 2, place du Châtelet in the 4th arrondissement.
Incl ...
one could visit a reconstructed Soviet communal apartment, with performers-residents living there around the clock, and Altai shamans performing rituals; works from the
Centre Pompidou
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were also exhibited in this space, in particular Sergey Bugaev "Afrika"'s “John Cage hands over the banner of socialist competition to Kuryokhin”.
The venue was also dotted by waxwork figures of DAU characters.
Round-the-clock public screenings of the films were accompanied by the sessions of ‘active listening’ for visitors with priests, pastors, rabbis, social workers and doctors as a counterpart With visitors’ permission, conversations were recorded.
According to media reports, from January 25 to February 17, 2019, about 40 thousand people visited the DAU project in Paris.
Conferences
The conferences at Paris premiere continued a series of conferences started in London in 2017 to explore the wide range of cultural, social, and political issues raised in DAU. The DAU conferences to the date are as follows:
* "Import and export of the Russian revolution: ideological, political and communal exchange." (25–25 February 2017,
London School of Economics and Political Science
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). Some of those who took part in the conference were professors
Teodor Shanin
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,
Alexander Etkind
Alexander Etkind (born 1955, Saint Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia) is a historian and cultural scientist. He is a professor of history and the Chair of Russia-Europe relations at the European University Institute. He is fellow of the Europea ...
, Mark Steinberg, Simon Dixon, John Butler, Erik van Raaij, Viktoria Zhuravleva, and David Wolf.
* "The protagonists of political mythology: how do individuals and collectives enter into history?" (25–26 March 2017, House of Commons, Parliament of the United Kingdom, University of Westminster), with the participation of the first president of Ukraine
Leonid Kravchuk
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, the first state secretary of Russia
Gennady Burbulis
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, Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Republic of Belarus
Stanislav Shushkevich
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, UK Ambassador to USSR Sir Roderick Braithwaite, West German Ambassador to USSR Andreas Mayer Landrut, professors Robert Service, Linda Cook, Mark Fenster, and Judith Pallot, and others.
* "The experience of extremism: faith, violence and liberation movements." (24–26 May 2017, House of Lords, Parliament of the United Kingdom, London Royal Society), with the participation of the former Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the United Kingdom, Sir Michael David Jackson, Representative of the Government of Autonomous Kurdistan His Excellency Karvan Jamal Tahir, Colonel Vladimir Azhippo, Professor James Fallon, members of the international tribunal from the former Yugoslavia Marko Sladojević (Serbia), Amir Cengic (Bosnia), and Davor Laznic (Croatia), former publicity director at
Sinn Féin
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Allegations of breach of professional ethics and unfeigned violence, and denials
Criticism of the project predominantly focused on questions of transparency, work ethics, and respect for the rights of DAU participants. Critical accounts mostly contain references to the anonymous testimonies of participants involved for only a short time. Neither participants nor creators of the DAU material shown at the Paris premiere criticized the project.
The project also spawned discussions about the limits of what is permissible in cinema.
The day before the launch of the Paris event, the French newspaper
Le Monde
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published an extensive article about the project, criticizing the scenes of violence. The project team filed a lawsuit in relation to the material, that allegedly quoted some of the participants. Subsequently, the article was supplemented by a letter from Khrzhanovsky and the director of a number of DAU products, Ilya Permyakov, with a refutation. Khrzhanovsky denies accusations of violence on the set, and so do the characters, who say that they "were not manipulated in any way" and refer to "directed artistic decisions", that formed the circumstances they were aware of.
At the premiere of the film Dau. Natasha at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2020, five Russian journalists addressed the artistic director of the festival
Carlo Chatrian
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Carlo Chatrian graduated in Literature and Philosophy from Turin University in 1994. As a film critic he works re ...
and the CEO Mariette Rissenbeek with an open letter expressing concern about the use of "real psychological and physical violence" and questioning the ethics of including the film in the competition. Chatrian responded that the questions were re-addressed to the production company and to the actresses, who denied the allegations; detailed responses from Khrzhanovsky, the film crew and actresses were also received at the press conference. Later, the accusations of the authors of the open letter were also refuted by the actress Natalia Berezhnaya in an interview to a major Iskusstvo Kino ('Film Art') magazine.
Allegations of abuse of children and young adults with disabilities, and denials
In the spring of 2020, Presidential Ombudsman in Children Rights of Ukraine Mykola Kuleba, responding to a Facebook post by Lena Samojlenko from 20 April 2020, appealed to the National Police of Ukraine to launch a probe into alleged ’physical pain or mental suffering through violent actions’ сaused to the children who took part in the shooting of DAU. Thus, the appeal was based on the impression of one single viewer from a movie ''Dau. Degeneration'' excerpt.
Khrzhanovsky as well as the officers of the production company denied the accusations referring to the permissions obtained from the orphanage, procedures of infants’ filming that had to be observed and were in place, international distribution certificates that the movie had obtained and the absurdity of assumptions about the reality beyond the frame made after watching a movie excerpt.
On 10 July 2020
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newspaper issued an apology to Khrzhanovsky for their article published in April about opening a criminal probe, that implied that there were reasonable grounds for such an investigation; in their statement, the newspaper reported that Khrzhanovsky had been paid damages and that he would donate to the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism.
At the beginning of 2021 criminal cases were closed as the results of a pre-trial investigation revealed no traces of criminal offence in the actions of the individuals involved in the film production in Kharkiv with the participation of children.
In the spring of 2020, there was also a social media discussion about the involvement of people with autism in the filming of the project in 2009; allegations of violence were refuted by the relatives of participants with ASD who accompanied them, by other participants of the production process, and archival video evidence was provided.
Allegations of overspending and poor organization of events
Criticism of the project also concerns unreasonable amount of resources spent to achieve artistic results that have already been achieved, such as blurring the boundaries between real and fictional, performer and character, deconstructing history and immersing in it. Criticism of the Paris premiere also included reviews of poor organization and bad navigation. The creators and some critics claim that the principle of uncertainty as an artistic element of the project and a way of interacting with the audience.
Distribution in Russia
In Russia four DAU movies ( Dau.Natasha, 'Dau. Nora Son', 'Dau. Sasha Valera' and 'Dau. New Man' were denied a cinema distribution licence by the Russian Ministry of Culture on the grounds that they contain materials that promoting pornography.
In 2020, the film company Phenomenon Films took the decision to court demanding that the films were granted distribution license, but the demands were rejected.
Honors
* Selected for European Film Market, Sofia, Bulgaria (2005)
* Selected as one of the 18 best world projects at the Atelier of the
Cannes Film Festival
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Berlinale
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critics ratings (2020).
* Dau. Degeneration - rated 1 in the list of the best movies of the first half of 2020 by independent online magazine for film, cinema&TV Film plus Kritik
* DAU. Natasha - Feature Film Selection 2020 by
European Film Academy
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European Film Academy
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The Academy—under the name of European Cinema Soc ...
* Serguei Adoniev – Chief Producer
* Jürgen Jürges – Director of Photography, Lighting Designer
* Manuel Alberto Claro – Saint Petersburg Unit Operator
* Denis Shibanov – Project Art Director
* Jekaterina Oertel, Ilya Permyakov, Alexey Slyusarchuk - Editing Directors
* Boris Shapovalov – Art Director of the Saint Petersburg Unit
* Olga Gurevich – Art Director of the Kharkiv Unit
* Jekaterina Oertel – Make-up Artist
* Maksym Demydenko – Post-Production Executive Producer and Sound Director
* Anastasia Smekalova – Casting Director
* Alexey Slyusarchuk, Vera Levchenko, Inna Shorr, Dmitry Mogilenets – Second Directors at the Site
* Anton Stoudennikov - First Assistant Director
* Zoya Popova - First Assistant Director Special Projects
* Volker Gläser – The Second Camera
* Jörg Gruber – First Assistant Operator, Third Camera
* Michael Siebert – Focus-Puller, First Assistant Operator
* Yevgeny Kravchynia – Art Assistant
* Arina Galantseva – Art Assistant
* Alexander Mordovin – Art Assistant
* Elena Shmakova – Assistant Art Director for Props
* Julia Zelenaya – Assistant Sound Engineer
* Alexandra Timofeeva – Head of the Costume Department, Executive Producer
* Irina Tsvetkova, Elena and Olga Bekritskie, Lyubov Mingazitdinova, Alexandra Smolina - Costume Designers
* Susanne Marian – Producer
* Philippe Bober – Film Producer
* Svetlana Dragayeva – Executive Producer
* Artem Vasiliev – Producer of the Preparation and Filming of the Saint Petersburg and Kharkiv Units
* Daria Sherman – Post-Production Line Producer
* Menelaos Pampoukidis – Visual Effects Supervisor
DAU Participants
*
Teodor Currentzis
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Currentzis was born in Athens, and at age 4 began to take piano lessons. At age 7, he began vio ...
Anatoly Vasiliev
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— Krupitsa
* Aleksei Trifonov
*
Alexei Blinov
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Nikita Nekrasov
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Nikolay Voronov
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— Denis
* Anna Volkova
* Viktoria Skitskaya
*
Samson Shatashvili
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* Maria Shtilmark
* Maria Nafpliotou
* Alina Alekseeva
* Konstanton Leshan
* Anatoliy Sidko
*
Maxim Martsinkevich
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* Kristina Babich
* Vladimir Yermolenko
* Pavel Gordiyenko
* Alexander Serdyuk
* Lidiya Schegoleva
* James H. Fallon
* Luc Bigé
*
Marina Abramović
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*
Romeo Castellucci
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Biography
Romeo Castellucci graduated with a degree in paintin ...
David Gross
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Shing-Tung Yau
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Carsten Höller
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*
Peter Sellars
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*
Tatiana Grindenko
Tatiana Grindenko (russian: Татьяна Тихоновна Гринденко; born 1946) is a Russian violinist and Meritorious Artist who graduated from the Moscow Conservatory and then became an assistant to Yuri Yankelevich. She is a foun ...
*
Vladimir Martynov
Vladimir Ivanovich Martynov (Russian: Владимир Иванович Мартынов) (Moscow, 20 February 1946) is a Russian composer, known for his compositions in the concerto, orchestral music, chamber music, and choral music genres.
...
Guillermo Arévalo
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In 1982, Arévalo co-founded Aplicación de Medicina Tradicional (AMETRA), an organizat ...
Anatoly Vasiliev
Anatoly Alexandrovitch Vasiliev (russian: Анато́лий Алекса́ндрович Васи́льев, link=no; born May 4, 1942, Penza Oblast) is a Russian theatre director. He is artistic director of the Moscow Theatre "School of Dramat ...
** DAU-4 / DAU. Empire
* Aleksei Sliusarchuk
** DAU-2 / DAU. Brave people
** DAU-6 / DAU. Conformists
** DAU-9.2 / DAU. String theory
* Dmitry Kaledin
** DAU. Science (series)
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See also
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Dau (film)
''DAU'' is a 2019 Russian film of the DAU project organised by Ilya Khrzhanovsky. The film deals with the life of the Nobel Prize-winning Soviet scientist Lev Landau. The premiere in Paris on 25 January 2019 was in the form of a dozen featur ...