a film by NIKITA PAVLOV

contributors

DirEctor, cAMErA, scriPtnikita Pavlov

ProDucErsKonstantin shavlovsky

nikita Pavlov

MAstEr EDitorPetr Zhukov

EDitorsnikita Pavlov

Viktoriya chupakhina

ADDitionAL cAMErAolga Grabovsky

Daniil Pavlov Petr Zhukov Masha Zobel

sounD EDitor ivan Gusakov

trAnsLAtion noa brezner

Ann Gainsford olga Grabovsky Maya rebichia

with state financial support by the Ministry of Culture of Russian Federation

AboutIt’s a selfportrait diary movie about a man, who was locked between two countries. He leaved Russia for good and moved to Israel. Soon he found himself in a complex feeling, where he couldn’t name himself anymore Russian, because he’s already disconnected with almost everything what is going on in Russia, including politics, arts, and even his best friends. But at the same time he wouldn’t become real Israeli, because he’s emigrated at the age when full integration is impossible, and he’ll be forever immigrant. But with that experience of living in another country, he can’t look at his first motherland the same. So he started to film that trips to Russia and back to Israel, his friends in both countries, he interviewed filmmakers and was shooting just everyday life to compare absurd that is going on on different levels in both countries. In the movie his friend Yuda Braun, who is performing his project The White Soldier in Jerusalem, connected with the art group Voina in Russia, also doing political art.

Film was shot in Israel, Russia and Europe in 2010-2011.Editing and post production finished in 2012.

83 minutes. HD video.Hebrew and Russian with English subtitles.

DirEctorDirEctor:“When New Year Comes on

Shabbat”, 83 min, 2012

DirEctor oF PHotoGrAPHY: “Goodbye, Tegel”, 12min, 2012, director Sergio Rufini

Mastropasqua

“U”, 15 min, 2012, director Petr Zhukov

“The Shelter”, 2011, director Olga Kravets

Born in 1982, in Moscow, Russia. Since 2002 photographing

for various magazines. Staff photographer with the Seance film

magazine and publishing house since 2004, member of the

editorial board since 2006. With the Seance publishing house

made two books with the portraits of russian cinema makers.

In October 2007 moved to Israel. In 2011 finished Musrara —

The Naggar School of Photography, New Media, New Music,

Animation and Phototherapy in Jerusalem, Israel.

In 2012 finished feature diary movie When New Year Comes

on Shabbat. November 2011 moved to Berlin, working on the

next diary movie The Return.

EDitorPetr Zhukov. Born 1982.

Lives in Moscow, Russia.

Graduated Moscow State Univercity (2005), Institute

Contemporary Arts, Moscow (2007), Rodchenko Moscow

School of Photography and Multimedia (2009).

Member of Upward! community. Member of the editorial board

of the video-magazine VIDIOT. Curator of apartment gallery

Brown Stripe. Working principally with video and multimedia

projects. Participant of exhibitions in Russia, Germany, France

and Israel.

EDitor:“When New Year Comes on

Shabbat”, 83 min, 2012

DirEctor: “Young man`s diary”, 27 min, 2012

“U”, 15 min, 2012

“The Way of Samodelkin”, 104 min, 2009-2011

“Russia upward!” (with D. Zinchenko), 13 min, 2010

“Maranatha”, 23 min., 2009

“Kotlin 2050” (with E. Gavrilova), 24 min, 2006 — 2007

tHE WHitE soLDiErWhite from head to toe, in full combat gear – a white soldier patrols the paths of West and East Jerusalem, mixed Israeli-Arab cities, settlements and Palestinian villages. Since 2009 «The White Soldier» has been an ongoing and expanding performance. The mundane presence of the soldier, when whitened, surfaces the emotional-national complexity of the intense daily life led by people

on both sides of the border. Performing among bystanders in the streets confronts them with the harsh absurdity of a violent reality in a manner which cannot be ignored, hence forcing the viewers to reevaluate their relations with their convoluted surroundings. The name of the soldier is Yuda Braun, he is a 27 year old Jerusalem based artist.Through his art he tries to initiate and participate in a dialogue with the people amongst whom he lives. The variety of reactions stirred by the ghost-like soldier express the perplexity of the Israeli-Palestinian collision and correlates to bereavement and oppression, sovereignty and pacification, oblivion and liberation.He was stopped by the police and army dozens of times, few times arrested, but at the end of the day always freed with the «no criminal offense» formulation.Yuda Brown and Nikita Pavlov studied together in Musrara photography school, where Pavlov filmed Yuda’s patrols.

VoinA art group

Voina (Russian: «war») is a revolutionary group of Russian artists that engages in radical street protest actions. Conceptions are worked out by Oleg Vorotnikov, Natalia Sokol, Leonid Nikolayev and Alex Plutser-Sarno. The group is not supported by any of Russian curators, nor gallerists. The core members of the collective have no income, philosophically rejected salaried employment and the use of money, and therefore lived primarily by scavenging and by stealing food and drink from stores. More than 20 of criminal cases have been brought against the group. In 2010-2011 Vorotnikov and Nikolayev were detained in jail for 3.5 months under accusation of inciting hatred towards the police by means of their art actions. They were released from custody, as artist Banksy bailed them out. At the present moment both Vorotnikov and Sokol are wanted by the police. Former members of Voina Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Yekaterina Samutsevich were jailed for their role in the Pussy Riot «punk prayer» at Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.

Nikita filmed Voina art group in Saint Petersburg, while they were hiding from the police. They’re and the White Soldier are those type of revolutioners he wanted to be, but has never become.

PrEss reviews

Pavlov has created a film that touches the heart and after watching it, one gets feeling of meeting with a talented author.

He documents his small family and his friends who dwell within Russian culture, and who are in a place in-between, when one can imagine that the aim is to be in both, to dive into israeli culture and to stay in Russian one. Skype conversations, bus travel, toddler dancing, and walking on the street - it all falls down to the mixture of noises, shapes, and atmosphere, which is a mixed feeling of closeness and distance.

Smadar Sheffi, Haaretz

sPEciAL tHAnKs toLyubov Arkus

ran Aizenshtatram bracha

the White soldier (Yuda braun)Ayelet Haschachar cohen

Daria Gladyshevaolga Grabovsky

Avi DabahDavid Daniel

nastya DenisovaAnna Hayat

Jon Jostida Leah

ivan LebedevAnton MazurovVitali ManskyDeva MelmanMaria PavlovaDaniil PavlovAlex Pirskyslava Pirsky

Kirill Preobrazhensky

tsipi razAlexandr rastorguev

Mikhail ratgauzAvi sabag

Dmitry sidorovVasiliy stepanov

Yana taranArt Group VoinaFelix Yakubson

Anastasiya ZelvenskayaMasha Zobel

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