Mike Kirin

Filmes

Butterfly City
Original Music Composer
The portrayal of a city that refuses to die along with its defunct Soviet-era nuclear power plant. The mainly Russian speaking citizens there face identity issues in modern Lithuania. This portrayal inevitably raises questions of democracy, inclusion, citizenship, and freedom of expression.
Perm-36. Reflexion
Original Music Composer
Three former political prisoners tell the story of their imprisonment in the Soviet-era Perm-36 prison camp. Years later they return to the camp (now a museum) to participate in the “Pilorama” Forum, a campsite, mirror-like, reflects the condition of Russian society haunted by phantom pains after the fall of the Soviet Union.