Bye-bye Violet Tapes. "Bread and sweets"

The St. Petersburg group by-bye Violet Tapes is gathered by the constant author of Colta.ru Radif Kashapov and musician Egor Ryazantsev. Radiff writes songs, Yegor brings them to mind and writes. The group prepares two mini-albums for the exit. The first is called “dialectics”-it is expected to have songs in different languages ​​and free structures in arrangements, on the second, “dialectics, on the contrary,” the group presented its view of pop music in Russian. The song “Bread and sweets”, Anna Tereshkina’s plasticine clip for which we really liked, from the second mini-album.

Radif Kashapov

When the song was invented, I did not know anything about oriental music. Then it turned out that we played some Ottoman poppy, and then the saxophone parties were successfully turned out ... Apparently, such songs should be approached as randomly complicated paintings. Most likely, she is about saturation and thoughts about asuza. And since the song is the lightest on EP , it was decided to make a clip for it - preferably without the faces of the authors.

Egor Ryazantsev

When Anika wrote to me and asked for music for the film in return for the clip, I did not at all show such scale. After all, in general, at first, we just wanted to put pictures with Radiph to the music - I think we both could not imagine that you can do such a video with our own hands, without the need to sell Satan's soul; Therefore, when the shooting began, I made up all the responsibility and decided to simply do everything that the director says. It was so surprising - you don’t seem to do anything special, and the cartoon grows right in front of our eyes. Magic, by golly! Of course, we helped us, special thanks to our spouses and daughters (we ourselves are neither sculpt nor draw), but Anya did the main work all. I am very pleased with how the picture interacts with the sound - the usual words acquire a new meaning.

Anna Tereshkina, director and animator

Actually, I am a teacher of arts that pounds with contemporary art. It all started with the fact that I shot a film for the Omsk exhibition and I needed music to insert there. The simplest thing was to choose any music that you like, that is, simply put, to stifle. The choice turned out to be great, and I decided to offer someone from the familiar musicians to write music specifically for this film.

She began to sort through everyone and listen and found that the two compositions of Yegor Ryazantsev (under the nickname Oilcake TV ) simply fit perfectly on the video. I asked him for these things and, as an exchange service, suggested making a video for any of his music. For several months this proposal was forgotten, but once Yegor said: “We realized what kind of song we want a clip” - and put me “bread and sweets”. I did not understand what this song was about, and no one, it seems, did not understand, and the author’s explanations somehow loosened in my head. The guys suggested illustrating every line in the video, and the idea to do this with the help of plasticine myself fell into my hands, since at that time I was looking for different ways of working with children at school (that which gives me both bread and sweets).

It would be boring to sculpt alone, we began to sculpt at home at Yegor, Ani and Dusi (9 years old), and the process turned into a real brainstorming, because the guys threw ideas, like karasiki caviar. A lot of funny offers had to be raised, otherwise the clip would become too sophisticated. For example, a series of monsters, which the hero passes at the beginning, was two times more, none of them wanted to part with them, and only against the background of the finished clip you see what kind of trifles it really is - the monster is larger, the monster is smaller.

The brain from any chaos is trying to build a system.

In general, we sculpted and shot together with a camera and tripod, and plastic kitchen boards came in handy for the background. Anya blinded the goddess Kali, Dusya-the main character-hipster, a dove, parachute and a compass, Lyuba Kashapova-sheep, but I commanded everyone and felt like an embarrassed tyrant. Then everyone left to rest, and I had to do this alone, I lazily all August took five seconds a day, so when everyone arrived, the team joyfully reunited and came up with the final 40 seconds.

The most difficult thing was to shoot the moments where the lyrics seemed to be an incoherent set of subjective associations. Only thanks to the clip I managed to personally build some connections in this song for myself, I don’t even know how much they coincide with the copyright.

I often explain music to myself in terms of fine art, so I want to attribute this song to the genre of surrealism. However, the brain from any chaos is trying to build a system, so the already finished clip has overgrown with new plot lines and relations of heroes. For example, a girl with wings that Mr. X (Hipster) first drowns in a pan, and then searches everywhere, I call the poet's dream. Here you can deduce a banal story about how to simply put a bolt on your dream among the mirages of modern life and then try to unsuccessfully catch it up all your life, like Ivan-a snag. Since ancient times, the dove was a symbol of the Holy Spirit, which supports and directs regardless of the situation on the scale of sins. Well, the goddess Kali here plays the role of Demiurge, such a Karabas-Barabas, whom the dolls nevertheless outwitted. Happy End .

Before us was not a choice between the tragedy and the comedy, everything by itself fell into place, as if it had grown out of the ground. There is also Lenin and Napoleon - here they both act as a kind of political/historical background, which is drowned out by pressing individual problems, and turn out to be the same victims of circumstances as the main character.