Papa Srapa
PAPA SRAPA is not a typical music documentary, but rather a condensed trip to the very heart of Noise. It is loaded with music that can hurt and heal, Russian weird avant-garde and savage vigor of its preeminent performer.
The film takes us to bizarre noise festivals and performances with ravers, tripsters and freaks immersing into worlds of sonic violence and ecstatic states of mind. Together with Papa we trace Noise back to 1920-s, binding it to early Soviet avant-garde figures, such as Dziga Vertov, Arseniy Avraamov and Nikolai Kulbin.
The craftsmаn should make his own tools - so Papa makes his of old Soviet radio components and cheap junk. We show it is not just about the way he plays them, using blood and saliva, but about the way he brings them to life. His weapons, known to the best part of Russian electronic musicians.
Our camera followed Papa Srapa at every step and turn. We sneaked into numerous dim rooms and spacious halls he was performing at, chased him to the eerie underworld of an abandoned factory. We listened to his liquored up revelations on the Soviet underground - and tasted of his doomsday DIY synth shrieking.
This film shows that Noise music was not born in Europe or Japan, but came to be as a bright child of a century-old tradition of Russian avant-garde.
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Konstantin IvAnovDirector
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Nikita KabardinDirector
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Damir KhalilovWriter
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Nikita KabardinProducer
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Konstantin IvAnovDirector of Photography
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Eduard SrapionovKey Cast"Papa Srapa"
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Vera YudinaKey Cast
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Leonid KotelnikovKey Cast
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Vlad KreimerKey Cast
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Anatoly RykhKey Cast
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Denis TretyakovKey Cast
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Oleg SitkovskyKey Cast
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Maxim BerezinKey Cast
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Tamara RyazantsevaKey Cast
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Valentin SohorevKey Cast
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Tala NikitinaKey Cast
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Oleg BezlutskyKey Cast
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Vera BarkalovaKey Cast
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Project Title (Original Language):Папа Срапа
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Project Type:Documentary
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Genres:Portrait, Music
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Runtime:1 hour 14 minutes
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Completion Date:February 23, 2021
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Production Budget:7,000 USD
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Country of Origin:Sweden
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Country of Filming:Russian Federation
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Language:Russian
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:1:2,35
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:Yes
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Student Project:No
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Russian International Documentary Film Festival (Artdocfest)Moscow
Russian Federation
April 5, 2021
Russian premier
Official selection -
Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival (LUFF)Lausanne
Switzerland
October 20, 2021
Europe Premier
Official Selection -
Kiev International Film Festival (KIFF)Kiev
Ukraine
May 21, 2021
Ukranian Premier
Official Selection -
International Film Festival ZILANTKazan
Russian Federation
February 20, 2021
Official Selection -
Best Istanbul Film FestivalIstanbul
Turkey
May 1, 2021
Turkey Premier
Award Winner -
MosFilmFestMoscow
Russian Federation
September 14, 2021
Finalist -
International Moving Film FestivalAbadan
Iran, Islamic Republic of
December 27, 2021
Semi Finalist -
KinoDUEL International Film FestivalPodolsk
Russian Federation
March 24, 2022
Nominee -
Sputnik Film FestivalWarshaw
Poland
November 22, 2021
Poland Premier
Official Selection -
Diametrale Film FestivalInnsbruck
Austria
May 19, 2022
Austrian premier
Official Selection
Director's duet of cameraman and programmer:
Konstantin Ivanov is a cameraman who worked with Alexander Mitta, Alexey German Jr., Vladimir Khotinenko, Ivan Vyrypaev and other directors. Graduate of St. Petersburg State University of Culture and Technology, workshop of Eduard Rozovsky and Sergei Astakhov, teaching cinematography at Lenfilm.
Nikita Kabardin is a programmer, engineer who has worked on projects such as the Battlefield games, Spotify and Groupon, and is seriously into avant-garde music and art in his spare time.
Papa Srapa is amazing, and our project began with the fact that we just realized that this is a phenomenon. We thought we were filming a movie about a musician, but now we are sure that this movie is about the main true representative of the century-old Russian musical tradition, which, ironically, no one knows about yet.
Surprisingly, it is the USSR that is the birthplace of industrial music. Back in the 1920s, Dziga Vertov recorded musical compositions from the sounds of a sawmill, and Arseny Avraamov created a symphony entirely consisting of the sounds of the city: factory whistles, whistling steam and the sounds of aircraft. With this film we want to show the world a modern representative of a century-old tradition who has dedicated his life to noise, performance and synthesis.
And we are lucky - Papa Srapa is an amazing character. He is a documentary filmmaker's dream. Turn on the camera and fix it. There will be everything. And incredible love stories. And fantastic horror stories reminiscent of footage from Lynch. And Soviet radio components in the underground. And the smoke of a soldering iron in a room that looks like a cyber shaman's cell.
Every person from Sweden or the USA or Brazil, but from anywhere, to whom we show just a few screenshots from our material, looks and says “wow, when will it be possible to watch it?”. This is because, believe me, few people have ever seen or imagined such a person as Papa Srapa.