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Harvard Gazette - Dasha Bough’s New Animated Film “The Conspiracy”

“It was a heavy film to work on and be immersed in for two years, but it felt good. It felt like every day I worked on it, I was more convinced by the need for the work,” she said. “I felt pressure to make a film that communicated the horror and the absurdity of everything we were learning from the research. You come out of it feeling totally convinced by how harmful and crazy and intertwined these conspiracy theories are but communicating that in an hour and a half is daunting.”

Variety - Anti-Semitism Documentary ‘The Conspiracy’ in Production (EXCLUSIVE)

An array of high-profile documentarians have come on board “The Conspiracy,” exploring the history of anti-Semitism and archaic conspiracies against the Jewish people, Variety has learned exclusively.

New York Times STYLE - Pride is in the Air

Harvard Gazette - A storyteller partial to sand

“I’m usually a perfectionist, but the sand forces me to loosen up. You can’t get attached to an image that is about to be wiped clean.” - Dasha Bough in conversation with the Harvard Gazette.

TedX - Art Transcends; A Sand Art Performance

Can art be used as a tool for diplomacy? In the era with the most modes of communication ever seen, we find ourselves struggling to communicate effectively. In her live sand art performance, Dasha works to breakdown cultural and linguistic barriers in order to promote artistic diplomacy.

BIG SKY Documentary Film Festival - 21st Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Unveils Official Selections

“Overall, our 2024 line-up is striking in the depth of original and creative storytelling from independent filmmakers whose subjects range from deeply personal and intimate unearthing of family history to those tackling challenging global issues, as well as investigations of microscopic organisms and as yet to be discovered universes,” says 2024 Guest Director of Programming Joanne Feinberg.

Forbes - “The Conspiracy” Traces Roots of Modern Antisemitism

“The animation style, which evokes the rotoscoped vibes of Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly, further elevates the piece, making The Conspiracy feel less like a documentary and more like a cross between a stage play and a quasi-interactive presentation one might come across during a museum tour. It’s really that unique. Wanting to channel a classic, hand-drawn aesthetic, Pozdorovkin relied on the expertise of animation director Dasha Bough, who developed a novel production pipeline meant to cut down on time and money.” -Josh Weiss for Forbes

The Forward - A fascinating new documentary shows how antisemitic lies were the ‘original fake news’

“There’s almost this kind of polysemous nature, where the archives and the animated world are bleeding into one another. And so this style of somewhere between 2D and 3D really came about from that. And also, I could use a lot of visual references from the era where things were happening. So for example, the German sections tend to be a little bit more German expressionist in the way that some of the architecture’s done, some of the posing.”

New York Super Shorts - Bough Wins “Best Documentary Short”

The Super Shorts New York Film Festival celebrated its 2023 edition last week with three screening nights showing shorts from around the globe.

Dasha Bough models for Joyce Bao during 2021 NYFW at Spring Studios, NYC.

Harvard Davis Center - Shifting Ground Exhibition

Harvard scholars and artists grapple with the transformations wrought by history.

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