Leonid Sipliy (b. 26th of November in Donetsk, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian author, writer, actor, producer, director, and occasional musician. Among with Mikhail Bondarev and Yaroslav Kozak he's one of the main collaborators and a good friend of Nikolay Yeriomin often involved in productions by PP Studio. Is a member of a band Errors in Geography since 2014.
Is often credited under pseudonyms, including Aaron Firstenberg, Leonid Sipliy, Robert Grob.
Currently resides in Vinnytsia, Ukraine.
Filmography[]
| Film | Actor | Crew Member |
|---|---|---|
| Those Old Trailers (2010) |
- | Special Thanks (as Mykhailo Pervushin) |
| Dietika (2011) | - | Contributing Writer Producer |
| All the Night (Noch' Naprolyot) (2011) |
The Voices From The TV The Captain (voice) |
Associate Producer Re-Recording Assistant Special Thanks |
| The 9th Irpen Film Festival (Devyatiy Irpenskiy kinofestival) (2011) |
Himself |
- |
| The Nose (Nos) (2012) | Sudden Actor (as Leonid Sipliy; voice) |
Producer (as Robert Grob) Assistant Director (credit only; as Aaron Firstenberg) Location Manager (as Leonid Sipliy) |
| Attack of the Banana Peel (Napadenie bananovoy kozhury) (2012) |
- | Special Thanks |
| IFF-10 ultra short film (Ultrakorotkoe kino IK-10) (2012) |
Sudden Actor (segment "Nos") | Producer (segment "Nos"; as Robert Grob) Assistant Director (credit only; as Aaron Firstenberg) Location Manager (as Leonid Sipliy) Special Thanks |
| The Wild Spirit (Dikiy Duh) (2012) |
- | Special Thanks |
| The Born Defecation (2012) | Pirate Narrator (voice) |
Re-Recording Assistant (as Leonid Sipliy) Caterer (as Leonid Sipliy) Special Thanks |
| The Prisoners Dilemma (2012) | Bobby Sudden Actor |
Producer (as Robert Grob) Set Decorator Second Assistant Director (as Aaron Firstenberg) Assistant Lightning Technician (as Aaron Firstenberg) Second Сamera Assistant (as Aaron Firstenberg) Special Thanks Stunts (uncredited) |
| International Relations Theory Illustrated #1 Realism (2012) | - | Special Thanks |
| The Army Movie (Samiy voenniy film) (2012) |
- | Special Thanks |
| Zero Sum Game (2012) (unfinished) | Candy Bandit(as Leonid Sipliy) |
Producer Props Costumes |
| The Porn Identification (2013) | Pirate Narrator Spectator (as Leonid Sipliy) |
Producer (as Robert Grob) Re-Recording Assistant (as Leonid Sipliy) Caterer (as Leonid Sipliy) Special Thanks |
| MV-A10 GrouP (Gruppa MV-A10) (2013) |
Himself (uncredited) |
- |
| "The Bucket (Vedro)" Season 1 Ep.0 "Unaired Pilot" (2013) |
The Prisoner With a Face (segment "Kino na bukvu 'Kh' - Dilemma") The Sceptic (segment "Nogi") |
Executive Producer (as Robert Grob) Post-Production Assistant (as Aaron Firstenberg) |
| Mikhailo Pervushin. Question to the USA Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt (2013) | Himself | Director Writer |
| Twenty Years Of Boredom (2013) | - | Co-Director (segment "Lenin v gorakh"; as Aaron Firstenberg; credit only) Special Thanks |
| Lenin in the Year of 2012 (Lenin v 2012 godu) (2013) | Sudden Actor (as Leonid Sipliy) |
Producer (as Robert Grob) Assistant Director (as Aaron Firstenberg) Sound Assistant (as Leonid Sipliy) Costumes (as Leonid Sipliy) Special Thanks |
| The Conference (2014) |
- | Production Assistant (as Leonid Sipliy) Honorary Member: Errors in Geography (as Leonid Sipliy) Special Thanks |
| Unique Congratulation (Unikal'noe pozdravlenie) (2014) |
- | Crossed-Out Congratulation Receiver (as Misha) |
| Unnamed Goat Mechanic Review (2014) (unfinished) |
- | Special Thanks |
| 8MM of March (8 mm marta) (2015) | Sudden Actor (as Leonid Sipliy) |
Assistant Director (as Aaron Firstenberg, credit only) Special Thanks |
| Rpik (2015) | Sudden Actor The Man Who Was Sitting (as Leonid Sipliy)   |
Location Manager (as Leonid Sipliy) |
| Specific Types of Communication in International Informational and Cultural Relations: Ukrainian Dimension of the Universal Code Of Cult Film (2015) | Man Walking Around The Sphinx (uncredited)  |
Props Costumes (uncredited) |
| [HTY]: Potomu chto os'minog (2015) | - | Special Thanks (Extended Edition) |
| "Egg Cetera" (2015-) Season 1 Ep.1 "My Duckling" (2015) |
- | Assistant Director (as Aaron Firstenberg) Special Thanks |
| Roshen Fountain Opening: Warriors of Light (Vidkryttya fontanu Roshen: Voyni svitla) (2015) | Himself - In the Audience (uncredited) | - |
| The Caligula Salad (Salat Kaligula) (2015) |
- | Also Thanks |
| One Third to Seven (Bez dvadsati sem') (2015) | Out Of Time Man (as Leonid Sipliy)  |
Director (as Aaron Firstenberg) Writer (as Aaron Firstenberg, idea) Cinematographer (as Aaron Firstenberg) |
| Rainy April (Dozhdliviy aprel') (2015) | - | Special Thanks |
| Mykyta Rykunov and Vlad Skulskiy: La donna è mobile (2011/2015) |
- | Special Thanks |
| Zexzz: Ternopolis (2015) |
- | Special Thanks (Director's Cut) |
| "Egg Cetera" (2015-) Season 1 Ep.2 "Lounge Hobo Square Eggs" |
- | Assistant Director (as Aaron Firstenberg) Special Thanks |
| Reading the Book of the Senseless (2015) |
Sudden Actor (as Leonid Sipliy) | Special Thanks |
| "Under Construction" Season 1 Ep.0 Pilot Season 1 Ep.1 The Terminator: Hunter Killer Aerial (Terminator Genisys Premiere Dedication) (2015) |
- | Special Thanks |
| Book of the Senseless (2015) |
Sudden Actor (as Leonid Sipliy)  |
Special Thanks |
| "Urban Nature" Season 01 Ep.00 "Interview with a Cat" (2015) |
- | Special Thanks |
| Errors In Geography: Fat Duck Surprise (2015) | Errors In Geography (as Leonid Sipliy)  |
Assistant Director (as Leonid Sipliy) Special Thanks |
| "Master When" Season 1 Ep.1 Public Domain Doctor Who (2015) |
Sudden Actor (as Leonid Sipliy) |
Post-Production Assistant (as Aaron Firstenberg) Special Thanks |
| "The Artiodactyls on Ice" Season 1 (2015) Ep. 0-2. |
The Artiodactyl on Ice (Ep. 0-2) | Creator (Ep.0-2) Producer (Ep.0-2) Costume Designer (Ep. 0-2) Director (Ep. 0-2) Writer (Ep.0-2) |
| Errors in Geography: Leaving Donetsk (To Live in Donetsk) (2015) |
Errors In Geography (as Leonid Sipliy)  |
Assistant Director (as Aaron Firstenberg, credit only) Music Consultant (as Leonid Sipliy) Special Thanks |
| Mikhail Bondarev: Heck of a Great Man (Mikhail Bondarev: Hren' velikogo cheloveka) (2015) |
- | The Most Adequate Assistant Director (as Aaron Firstenberg) Special Thanks |
| "Egg Cetera" (2015-) Season 1 Ep.3 "Eggs or Ceased Part I: Mad Maxi" Season 1 Ep. 4 "Eggs or Ceased Part II: Stick These" Season 1 Ep.5 "Eggs or Ceased Part III: Mature Mutant Exorcist Turtles" Season 1 Ep.? "Space Champion Formula or Happy New Year, Easter, Whatever" (Post-Production/Hiatus/Unfinished) |
- | Special Thanks |
| Debut of the Freshman, 11th of November 2015: Digest of Combined Show by Faculty of History and Faculty of Physics and Technics (Debyut pershokursnyka, 11 lystopada 2015: Daydzhest vystupu zbirnoyi Istorychnogo ta Fizyko-Technichnogo fakultetiv) (2015) | - | Crew |
| Lesser-Known League Gaming (2015) | - | Special Thanks |
| Intermezzo Short Story Festival (2015) | Himself - In the Audience (uncredited) | - |
| Errors in Geography: Festively Engaged (2015) | Errors in Geography | Location Scouting Special Thanks |
| HTY: Sladkiy (2015) | - | Assistant Director (as Aaron Firstenberg) Special Thanks |
| Uncle Vasya's Day Off (Vykhodnoy Dyady Vasi) (2016) | Cat (as Leonid Sipliy)  |
Executive producer (as Leonid Sipliy)
Costumes (as Leonid Sipliy) Location Manager (As Leonid Sipliy) Caterer (as Leonid Sipliy) |
| Errors in Geography: The Seeker of Autumn (2016) | Errors In Geography (as Leonid Sipliy)  |
assistant director (uncredited)
assistant editor (uncredited) |
| Piramids Above Kyiv (Piramidy Nad Kievom) (2016) | Sudden Actor (as Leonid Sipliy, credit only)  |
|
| The Artiodactyls On Ice
Season 1 ep. 1 Season 1 ep. 2 Season 2 ep. 1 (2016-17) |
The Artiodactyl on Ice  |
Director (ep. 1.2, 1.3)
Creator Producer Costume Designer |
| Ivan Born (2016) | Distinguished Bystander / Sudden Actor (as Leonid Sipliy)  |
|
| What Worth Are 50 hrn On Khreschatyk? (2016) | Sudden Actor (as Leonid Sipliy, credit only)  |
|
| The Bucket (Vedro)
Unaired Pilot |
Prisoner With a Face (as Leonid Sipliy)    |
Executive producer (as Robert Grob)
Post-production assistant (as Aaron Firstenberg) |
| The Bucket (Vedro)
Season 1 Ep. 1 This Friday Night (2016) |
As Leonid Sipliy:
The Rioter (voice)          |
Writer
Producer Dialogue Editor Stunts Costumer |
| The Bucket (Vedro)
Christmas Special (2016) |
Mikhail (As Leonid Sipliy)  |
Writer (as Aaron Firstenberg)
Produser (as Robert Grob) Assistant Director (As Robert Grob) Dialog Editor (as Leonid Sipliy) Stunts (as Leonid Sipliy) costumer (as Leonid Sipliy) Location Manager (as Leonid Sipliy) Choreographer (uncredited) Clapper (uncredited) |
| My Neighbours Were Eaten By Toilets (2017) | Toilets (voice, as Leonid Sipliy)  |
Other Media Works[]
- TBA
Bibliography (Printed and Literary Works)[]
Prose[]
- The Most Important of All The Arts (2016)
- The Red Baseball Cap of Fred Durst (Krasnaya beysbolka Freda Dyorsta) (2016)
- Where Are We Now? (2016-17)
Poetry[]
- Asphalt (2013/2016)
- Welcome! (Dobro pozhalovat'!) (2015/2016)
- Omega Point (2016)
- Downward Spiral (2016)
- Exit (Encore?) (Vykhod (na bis?) (2016)
- Honesty (2016)
- About Someone Else (O kom-to drugom) (2016)
- Eloquence (2016)
- Top View (Vid sverkhu) (2016)
- Dark Matter (2016)
- The End of a Short Story (Konets korotkoy istorii) (2016)
- H.T.Y. (2016)
- M. (2016)
- Naked Lunch (2016)
- Rooftops (Cheshire Cat)
- Around the World in Three Couplets (Vokrug sveta za tri kupleta) (2016)
- Sing, Singularity! (2016)
- Human (Chelovek) (2016)
- The Wave He Gave (2016)
- Dollmaker (2016)
- Nonologue (2016)
- The Night Of Japanese Poetry (Vecher Yaponskoi Poesii (Haiku compilation) (2016)
- Event Horizon (Impasse) (2016)
- Kyiv (Kiev) (2017)
Translations[]
- One Of Us Is The Killer (Odin iz nas - ubiytsa) (2016) (a translation of The Dillinger Escape Plan song)
- What If... (2016) (A translation of Пикник Song "А может быть и не было меня")
- Manhattan (2016) (A translation of Leonard Cohen's song "First We Take Manhattan")
- Apocalypse (2017) (A translation of 'Jane Air' song "Апокалипсис Уже За Тобой")
Scientific[]
- Internet-censorship in Ukraine: Tendencies and perspectives in the light of new challenges to the national security // May Studies: History, Politology, International Relations, - Vinnitsya, Donetsk National University, 2016 - pp. 99-102 (Published in Ukrainian under the title "Інтернет-Цензура в Україні: Тенденції та перспективи у світлі нових викликів національній безпеці", 20. 05. 2016)
- Authoritarian regimes and virtual space: Interaction and adaptation // Current Problems of International Relations, - Kyiv, Kyiv National University, 2016 - pp. 217-220 (Published in Ukrainian under the title "Авторитарні режими та віртуальний простір: взаємодія та адаптація", 2016
- Content Filtering and Censorship in Ukrainian Internet in the context of the new challenges to national security // International Relations ("Political Studies" series), - Kyiv, Kyiv National University, 2016 - 13 p. (Published in Ukrainian under the title "Фільтрація та цензурування контента в українському інтернет-просторі в контексті нових загроз національній безпеці")
Discography (Music)[]
Errors in Geography[]
- Geodesy (2016) - virtual single.
Guest Appearances[]
- TBA
Other[]
- Nikolay Yeriomin - A Few Tricks Up My Sleeve (2016) - Thanked in the Linear Notes.