KIRA KIRA

Kristin Bjork Kristjansdottir / Kira Kira is an Icelandic musician and a filmmaker. She comes from a playful background of adventurous music, arts and creative filmmaking, moonlighting between writing and directing her own films and scoring films and TV shows. Kira Kira composed music for Daniel Stessen's hybrid animated scifi TV series Dream Corp LLC on Adult Swim and has scored a few feature films and shorts including "The Deposit" for which she got nominated for the Icelandic Film and TV Awards in 2018. She has 5 solo albums to her name as a recording artist, released internationally on various labels like Berlin's Morr Music, Tokyo's Afterhours and California's Time Released Sound which she has toured world wide in various incarnations. Collaborating with innovative and playful filmmakers, musicians, animators and dancers is a passion of hers. Kristjansdottir's feature music documentary "Grandma Lo-fi" won 1st prize at CPH Dox and was screened in over 300 international film festivals, including MoMA's Documentary Fortnight, SXSW, IFFR, BAFICI and many more. Kira is a co-founder of Kitchen Motors -A playful music collective and label focused on explorations in music which she spearheaded for a decade alongside composers Jóhann Jóhannsson and Hilmar Jensson