Space in the “DAU” project (dir. Ilya Khrzhanovsky). Contexts

Beata Waligórska-Olejniczak

doi:10.31261/RSL.2024.34.04

Published: 2024-05-16

Vol. 34 (2024)

Space in the “DAU” project (dir. Ilya Khrzhanovsky). Contexts

Beata Waligórska-Olejniczak

Section: Dział główny

https://doi.org/10.31261/RSL.2024.34.04

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of space in the “DAU” project, directed by Ilya Khrzhanovsky in cooperation with Yekaterina Oertel, Alexei Slyusarchuk and Ilya Permakov, among others. Feature films and documentaries that constitute the project were shot in the years 2009–2012, mainly in Kharkiv, in a closed scientific institute, built exclusively for this purpose. The aim of the article is to examine selected spatial solutions in the project, to contextualize them, and, consequently, to link the film architecture with the behavioral sphere and the corporeality of the characters. The methodological tool, supporting the research of the text, is the category of the underground, embedded in the work Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. In the process of interpretation, the author draws attention to the connections between the mechanisms of oppression functioning in the totalitarian system and the symbolic language of the body and architecture.

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DAU , Khrzhanovsky , space , underground , totalitarian system

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Waligórska-Olejniczak, B. (2024). Space in the “DAU” project (dir. Ilya Khrzhanovsky). Contexts. Rusycystyczne Studia Literaturoznawcze, 34, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.31261/RSL.2024.34.04

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Beata Waligórska-Olejniczak

beata.waligorska@amu.edu.pl
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0433-9920

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Beata Waligórska-Olejniczak is a University Professor and the head of the Department of Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. She is the author of the books: Contemporary Russian cinema in the light of war traumas. Literary and cultural context (2020); “Sacrum” on the way. Venedict Erofeev’s “Moscow-Petushki” and Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction” from the angle of montage reading (2013); “Theatrical gesture” in A. P. Chekhov’s drama “The Seagull” and “free dance” as the aesthetic context of the Great Theatre Reform (2009); She is an editor-in-chief of “Studia Rossica Posnaniensia”. Her research interests include contemporary Russian cinema, literature of Russian modernism, interdisciplinary and intermedia comparative studies.

Vol. 34 (2024)
Published: 2024-10-30

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