The craziest film of all time? The art project DAU by Russian Director Ilya Khrzhanovsky has been celebrated according to the startup problems of the world premiere in Paris.
The French call DAU is a “monster project”. The whole of Paris to speak of the large-scale installation of the Russian Director Ilya Khrzhanovsky, wrote the Paris daily newspaper “Libération” in front of the opening. The delayed “for technical reasons”, as it was called. Since the weekend, now DAU to the Stalin Era in detail. At least that’s the idea of Khrzhanovsky.
The venue are up to 17. February, the Théâtre de la Ville de Paris and the Centre Pompidou. Also, the Théâtre du Châtelet to belong to it, but so far, the approval of the Paris Prefecture. Sure, the three institutions are not chosen by chance, because you are within walking distance of each other. The Name of DAU takes on the Russian Nobel prize laureate Lev Landau (1908-1968) was called with nickname DAU. Khrzhanovsky actually wanted to make a Biopic about the physicist. The film’s Director to be decided, but was instead one of Landau’s life inspired the Soviet science city of the Ukraine simulated.
400 people in a scientific Experiment
DAU has become a kind of documentary about it, which records the lives of around 400 people in a simulated world of the Stalinist past. The least of the protagonist actor. You played yourself, for three years, from 2009 to 2011, in an artificial world. There were proper cooks, beggars, or scientists that lived and worked there. Clothes, food, vocabulary – everything comes from the years 1938 to 1968. The cost of the elaborate project, according to the media, several dozen million euros, “reports” – have been almost completely taken over by the Russian oligarch Serguei Adoniev. “You can’t even tell that you have played; you have to rethink the concept,” said Ruth Mckenzie, the artistic Director of Le Châtelet, one of the three locations, at the DAC in Paris.
“A journey into the heart of DAU, the blows of the Soviet Blizzard over,” writes the press refererentin of DAU, Claire Fabre.
In Berlin DAU is failed
Actually, the DAU was supposed to start last autumn in Berlin. Khrzhanovsky had planned a complete town quarter on the Boulevard “unter den Linden” for his art project with a wall to enclose. But the Berlin authorities for non – approved reasons, this city in the city. In addition, it rained protests by politicians, the educational value of DAU doubted.
The Paris DAU is supposed to be a mix of exhibition, Multimedia Installation, and film presentation. It goes to the Director to Immersion, an Immersion in a parallel world, in which it is accessible and tangible art works. The topics of submission, Monitoring, in short, the experience of totalitarianism. “There is a word missing in order to explain ‘Dau’, we have not found it yet,” says Martine d’Anglejan-Chatillon, Executive Producer of DAU. “But I have the feeling that this is a key project that will change the way the audience makes an artistic experience,” she says.
The Greek-Russian conductor Teodor Currentzis plays the role of Lev Landau
The 14 films, which has made the 43-year-old Director out of a total of 700 hours of raw material, running around the clock. The theatres have been converted into Scenes, which are modeled after the Lenin-era busts of Karl Marx, portraits of Lenin and Russian furnishings to create an authentic atmosphere. “History painting in the cinema and the social experiment” called it the press. Prominent artists participated in the social experiment also and acquisitions roles in the movie. About the Performance artist Marina Abramovic and the German artist Carsten Höller.
DAU offers a star-studded
Also a few French movie stars were involved in the project: Isabelle Huppert, Fanny Ardant and Gérard Depardieu, the French Translation have lent their voices. In Essence, it is a Film that blows up, but the Format of the canvas. In addition to the film screenings scene occur in stars, such as the Greek-Russian conductor Teodor Currentzis, the British ambient pioneer Brian Eno, Massive Attack in the surprise concerts. Because DAU would like to not only be a fleeting spectacle, but a private cosmos, the visitors are asked to apply for a visa. It may be for a period of six, 24 hours or for an unlimited time and costs between 35 and 150 Euro. The visitors must answer questions, some of them go into the Intimate. “Were you abused in Childhood abused,” is one of the questions. An Immersion in the world of DAU only without their own Smartphone. It needs to be exchanged at the entrance for the “DAU-phone”. This is the visitor navigates through the spectacle that takes you on a trip back in time in the history of Russia. After the spectacle, visitors can have their interview. You can choose between a conversation with a psychologist, a shaman from Siberia or police forces. Or you could just drink vodka.
DAU will be to Paris, also in London.