April 21 "Dau" came to the network and registered there at dau.movie

Well, all with this project is wrong, "like people." In people, Koronavirus drank a new film Revolutionary, the film industry fell into a lethargic sleep. Then it intended to get out of the shadow of the “Cinema for the Chosen”, admitted to festival shows ... and where? In the most democratic open space - the Internet. After several days of test checks, the first films of the movie machine with Ilya Khrzhanovsky appeared on the special website Dau.movie.

"Dau" is

The main cinema of the year. Not a movie at all. The most scandalous phenomenon. A long -term anthropological experiment on people inhabited in the aquarium for observation. Freedom of creativity. Manipulations and Abuez. The alloy is fixed with non-fictor. The most crazy filming of the century. Hundreds of real people of various professions as actors. Pornography. Art, not constrained by the framework. One of the most complex and large -scale art events of the decade. A film site, on which world -famous scientists argue and engage in science. Contractors are improvisable co-authors of the plot ... Bodel slaves ... Objects in love with art space ...

Read the first review of the project in Novaya Gazeta.

What alone during this time we never heard about Dau, which is better to see once. Especially since

The cost of one session is only 3 dollars.

The question is how one film fragment will make up the idea of ​​the project. In this sense, Dau follows the Aristotelian Maxim about the whole, which is more than the amount of its parts. Now everyone is free to fold this mosaic.

Why now?

I think this is a collegial decision of the producers and director Ilya Khrzhanovsky is motivated by several reasons.

The first reason. The pandemic locked us at home, turning even the most advisable moviegoer into a user. The humanity connected by one network watches approximately the same series, absorbs tons of the necessary, excess and fake information.

For more than 10 years, a self-isolated project about a closed, cut off from the outside world, the space to some extent becomes a mirror of not the past, but the present. The jeans closed in a bottle of cruel time try to be happy, betraying each other, being faithful, fearing - to be “brave people”.

This state of duality is the main substance "DAU". However, modernity in one way or another penetrates almost every episode, it is in speech, in noticeable details (like mouthpieces in red nails almost all women), in deliberate convention. That is, the collective hero "Dau" is not our grandfathers with grandmothers, but a contemporary with the genotype of Soviet man. And the Soviet man, as shows recently, does not go anywhere. The features of Sovietism in the “post -Soviet social hybrid” become even more obvious than during the time of Zinoviev. And the desire to be fooled, and readiness for victims, and a keen desire to condemn others to sacrifices, and reporting. Yes, and the secret research research institute - the multi -storey structure of “exemplary content”: from the “upper floors” of eminent academicians with orders to ships and basements for experiments and interrogations with addiction, more and more resembles “current moment”.

The second is the second. The world premiere of the project has already taken place. First - in Paris, then two films became participants in the official program of Berlinale, causing a series of laudatory and murderous articles. “Dau. Natasha ”became the owner of a“ silver bear ”for outstanding artistic achievements. The prize was awarded to the operator Jurgen Yurgesus, who shot the films of Hineke, Fassbinder, Wenders, who came up with a special lighting system, which allows you to shoot day and night without familiar equipment.

After festival shows, films usually go to screens. But how to release Dau? Separate blocks of 14 films? In this sense, it is most convenient for their virtual cinema-house, in which only “Dau” will live.

Reason is the third. In November 2019, the Ministry of Culture of Russia refused to issue rental certificates “Natasha” and three more films from the project: “New Man”, “Nora/Son” and “Sasha/Valera”. The ministry said that they contain the propaganda of pornography.

In February 2020, the film company Phenomen Films , engaged in the production of Dau, filed a lawsuit against the Ministry of Culture to the Moscow Arbitration Court. The creators of the picture demand that the refusal to issue rental certificates be recognized as unlawful. It was clear that in a mutual form, Ilya Khrzhanovsky project would not be released on the screens. However, the day after the ban, the then Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky suggested that a movie prohibited for showing in cinemas, "on Internet resources, may probably be shown with appropriate warnings." His recommendations, in particular, followed.

The recently departed remarkable film critic, essayist Alexander Timofeevsky in the text for “New” wrote: “Of course, the films“ Dau ”are artistically very strong, should be available in cinemas. Of course, no ministry has the right to prohibit anyone. It is forbidden by our constitution precisely and only censorship. But this is pointless to explain. It is pointless and hopeless. Therefore, I would spit on cinemas and go on the network. No one is a decree, like Ville Farnesin. To create a large Dau portal there is a difficult and exciting task, as a result of which the project can get a new life. Finished or endless, this is an open question. ”

What is shown

Already you can watch the films “Dau, the films lit by Berlinale. Natasha ”and“ Dau. Degeneration ". “Degeneration” is renamed literally before the “degradation” online premium. Following will be released 12 chapters of the picture, which are already announced on the site: “Dau. Nora Mother ”,“ Dau. Three days ”,“ Dau. Brave people ”,“ Dau. Katya Tanya ”,“ Dau. New man, "" Dau. Sasha Valera ”,“ Dau. Empire ”,“ Dau. Strings theory ”,“ Dau. Nikita Tanya ”,“ Dau. Conformers. " Then there will be TV shows and, finally, will publish all 700 hours of material shot on film.

It is curious that the show begins with "Dau. Natasha ”, one of the“ forbidden ”films.

The story of Natasha’s headlight, of her, say, conflicting relations with the barmertick Olga, visiting scientist Luke Bizh and, finally, with the KGB General Vladimir Azhippo. In a four -hour powerful epic “degeneration”, the power of organs over the world of scientists becomes “irresistible power”, although in the courtyard it was already like a thawing post -Talinsky time. “Joking”, “joking”, lightly scares with weakly, like a talented promising youth in the basement, cut “long patles”. After humiliation, they will simply disappear from the institute along with naive and crazy ideas, an intelligent flirting with girls, a Vizbor songs. The future will disappear.

Musician pogromers, the Nazis, led by real Martsinkevich, will come to his place.

At first, they seem to be also experimental for psychophysical experiments. But soon the experimental jackals themselves will be conducted by the process of building a new person destroying the Universe, which he himself built.

How to look

The site has brief synopsis of films, but no location. And although in the project there is an internal story (“Dau” begins in the 20s of the twentieth century and ends in 1968), which is expressed even in light and color-Stalin's times were shot in gloomy, with shadows, in the Khrushchev years, the color becomes more intense ... Nevertheless, the viewer is provided to his own choice. And one of the final chapters “degeneration” is one of the first.

The authors of the DAU project do not want to supply with excessive titles and programs of the viewer, which is one of the doors of this maze, and then searches for a way out.

You can watch unfinished, as if sketching paintings in any order. The assembly of the whole is made by the viewer himself. From the fragments of what he saw, he mounts Metakino in his head (with all the ranging, the installation here is thought out).

The initial scenario for the picture was written by Vladimir Sorokin on the basis of memoirs of the widow of the brilliant academician of the Landau cortex.

But this scenario is more like a runway, with which the project flew in different directions. The film "Dau" is the joint production of Germany, Russia, Ukraine and Sweden. The picture took place from 2008 to 2011 in Kharkov, which ended with a symbolic explosion of giant decorations. Perhaps someday Vladimir Sorokin, who departed from the project, will write a surrealist dock “How to remove Dau”.

PS

Will there be new films after the publication of Dau on the Web? The authors do not talk about this, but, apparently, yes. One of the main films, the story of the young Landau of the “pre -prostitutes” pores is still mounted and, apparently, is waiting for the show at one of the festivals.