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 ...

“DAU. Natasha” has no credits to explain the wild concept behind its existence, but context is everything. The sophomore feature from Russian director Ilya Khrzhanovskiy follows his well-received 2004 ...

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 ...

Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s films “Degeneratsia” and “Natasha” are part of an undertaking whose eccentricity and grandeur border on folly. By A.J. Goldmann BERLIN — Well over a decade after filming started, ...

Berlin: Ilya Khrzhanovskiy's first film from his sprawling "DAU" experiment is thought-provoking and terrifying at once. “DAU. Natasha” has no credits to explain the wild concept behind its existence, ...

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 ...

'DAU. Natasha,' the first spinoff feature from Ilya Khrzhanovsky's epic “Soviet Truman Show” experiment, paints a bleak picture of love and sex in Stalinist Russia. By Stephen Dalton Probably the most ...