Dau - 5 years of filming, entire city built, cast rarely leave the set

[CitizenSmif]

Five years ago, a relatively unknown (and unhinged) director began one of the wildest experiments in film history. Armed with total creative control, he invaded a Ukrainian city, marshaled a cast of thousands and thousands, and constructed a totalitarian society in which the cameras are always rolling and the actors never go home

On the Movie Set of Director Ilya Khrzhanovsky's Dau: Movies + TV: GQ

The link is an interested read. The director sounds like he's getting some serious soviet ass.

I'm not how good the final edit will be if theres no directing. I wonder how violence etc is handled there?

 

[liesnillusions]

waste. of. money.

 

[Andrew Scherer]

a communist LARP mixed with the truman show

 

[richcam]

meeh, the only good thing is this