Director of
DAU
Ilya Khrzhanovsky, born in 1975 in Moscow, is a film director, producer and artist. He graduated from the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in 1998. His debut feature 4 (2004) premiered at the Venice International Film Festival and won the Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, as well as numerous other international awards. In 2006, he began work on DAU, which developed over more than two decades into a multidisciplinary project at the intersection of cinema, visual art and anthropology. DAU was publicly presented in Paris in 2019 as part of a several-week-long programme featuring exhibitions, performances and film screenings. Two films from the project, DAU. NATASHA and DAU. DEGENERATION were selected for the official programme of the Berlinale in 2020.
Films (selection): 4 (2004), DAU (2026)