Chetyre : Grand prix au Festival de Rotterdam, 2005
Biography
Born on August 11, 1975 in Moscow (Russia) in the family of editor Maria Neiman and animation artist Andrei Khrzhanovsky.
He grew up in a creative atmosphere and from childhood dreamed of following in the footsteps of his grandfather, actor and artist Yuri Khrzhanovsky.
In 1992 he entered the faculty of painting at the Bonn Academy of Arts in Germany. However, a year later he returned to Russia and became a student of the directing department of VGIK (workshop of M.M.Khutsiev), which he graduated in 1998.
At the age of 22, he debuted as a theater director with the production of “What I Feel” at the 1997 KUKART International Festival.
The first film work was the short film "Stop" (1998). In 2004, he declared himself in feature films with the scandalous drama "4" (2004), which won prizes at international film festivals and was criticized in the Russian press.
The director's most famous project was the film epic DAU, originally conceived as a biopic about Soviet physicist Lev Landau and over 15 years of development turned into 700 hours of footage and 16 films. The first one is called “DAU. Natasha "(2020) was included in the list of candidates for the" Golden Bear "of the Berlin Film Festival.
Member of the European Academy of Motion Picture Arts, member of the Guild of Russian Film Directors.
Since March 2022 he lives in Israel (Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Khrzhanovsky)
- DAU. 'Sometimes this space can hurt you.' , Eugénie ZVONKINE,
Oleg Aronson, Amanda Barbour, Olga Bryukhovetska, Philip Cavendish, Natascha Drubek, Heleen Gerritsen, Nick Holdsworth, Kior Janev, Karol Jóźwiak, Catriona Kelly, Ilja Kukuj, John Leman Riley, Irina Schulzki, Taras Spivak, Denise J. Youngblood, 2020, Apparatus
