DAU. Degeneration (Part 1)

Ilià Khrzhanovski, Ilià Permiàkov

Special Sessions Germany, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Russia, Sweden, France 122 min Spanish premiere Fiction

Synopsis

Una de les parts més monumentals i contundents del megaprojecte multimèdia DAU, dels russos Ilià Khrzhanovski i Sergei Adonyev, una obra crua i ambiciosa que ha comportat deu anys de rodatge, 700 hores de material i centenars d’actors vivint en un set de 12.000 metres quadrats. El film transcorre durant els últims anys d’un institut científic soviètic on es realitzen experiments per crear l’ésser humà perfecte. La reflexió sobre la vigilància i el totalitarisme a l’antiga URSS condueix el relat, en aquesta ocasió, cap a la sàtira decadentista, la denúncia social —els abusos sexuals a càrrec del director del centre— o l’anàlisi de la política d’ultradreta a través d’un grup de radicals que irromp en les instal·lacions. Projecció dividida en tres sessions.

Themes

European CinemaDramaHistoryPoliticsSex

Filmmaker

Ilià Permiàkov

Ilya Permyakov is an audiovisual director and scriptwriter and a PhD in Philosophy. His audiovisual works have been exhibited in centers such as the MMOMA in Moscow or the Tate Modern in London, and in 2008 he was awarded at the Moscow Film Festival for his video art work Gazing. Since 2012, he has had a notable role in the DAU project; he has co-directed some films and has done research, writing and academic dissemination.

Filmography: DAU. Regeneration (codirigit, 2020), DAU. Degeneration (codirigit, 2020), DAU. New Man (codirigit, 2020)

Ilià Permiàkov

Ilià Khrzhanovski

Ilya Khrzhanovskiy graduated from the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) and in 2005 he released his first feature film, 4, winner of the Rotterdam Film Festival and awarded at festivals such as Transilvania or BAFICI, among many others. In 2006 he started DAU, an ambitious film project that combines art, anthropology and history, which was premiered in 2019 in Paris, between the Théâtre du Châtelet, the Théâtre de la Ville and the Pompidou Center.

Filmography: DAU. Regeneration (codirigit, 2020), DAU. Natasha (codirigit, 2020), DAU. Conformists (codirigit, 2020), DAU. Degeneration (codirigit, 2020), DAU. Sasha Valera (codirigit, 2020), DAU. New Man (codirigit, 2020), DAU. Katya Tanya (codirigit, 2020), DAU. Nikita Tanya (codirigit, 2020), DAU. String Theory (codirigit, 2020), DAU. Brave People (codirigit, 2020), DAU. Three Days (codirigit, 2020), DAU. Nora Mother (codirigit, 2020), DAU. Nora Son (codirigit, 2020), Dau (2019), 4 (2004)

Ilià Khrzhanovski

Film information

Original Title: DAU. Degeneratsia
Director: Ilià Khrzhanovski, Ilià Permiàkov
Script: Ilià Khrzhanovski, Ilià Permiàkov
Contact: Filmin
With: Vladimir Azhippo, Dmitri Kaledin, Olga Shkabàrnia
Country: Germany, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Russia, Sweden, France
Year: 2020
Format: Digital
Length: 122 min
Language: Russian, English
Subtitles: Spanish
Subtitles in Filmin: Spanish
Edition: 2021

Poster

DAU. Degeneration (Part 1)