Press & Interviews
This page gathers a concise selection of writing on Khrzhanovskiy and his work.
The emphasis is on a few recurring areas: the debut film 4 (Four), the DAU project, interviews about method and public life, and more recent contextual coverage.
4 (Four)
- Time Out New York: On the release of 4. An early response from the year after Rotterdam.
- Los Angeles Times: Feature review. Robert Abele on the film's hypnotic and unsettling force.
- The New York Times: Critic's Notebook at Tribeca. Stephen Holden on the film's dreamlike severity.
- indieWIRE: Connect the dots: 4. Michael Joshua Rowin on the singularity of the film's language.
DAU
- The New York Times: On the opening of DAU in Paris. A report from the first public release.
- The New York Times: On DAU at the Berlinale. Festival coverage focused on DAU. Natasha and DAU. Degeneration.
- The Guardian: On the scale and secrecy of DAU. A portrait of the project before its Paris release.
- Screen Daily: On the Paris launch. A report on the project as it moved from rumor into public form.
- The Film Stage: On DAU. Natasha. A review that treated the film as an entry point into the wider cycle.
Interviews
- Apparatus: DAU Is a Process. A detailed conversation on method, duration, and process.
- Der Spiegel: Interview on DAU and historical memory. A long German-language conversation published in 2020.
- Jewish Currents: The Many Oblivions of Babi Yar. A piece that places Khrzhanovskiy's role at Babi Yar within a larger discussion of memory and politics.
Recent coverage
- The Guardian: Interview on exile, DAU, and the war in Ukraine. A 2025 conversation that connects earlier artistic work with recent public life.
- The New York Times: On the project before public release. A 2019 piece on DAU's mythic status and the questions surrounding it.
- DW: On the Paris launch delay. A concise account of the project at the moment it entered public discussion.
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