A native of Korea, Okkyung Lee has been developing her own voice in
contemporary cello performance, improvisation and composition for more than a decade by blending her wide interests and influences.
With Mr. Salinas and Greenberg's consent, I offer to kickoff our visit with an immediate impression during the start of the film that distinguishes it's score from Cartel Land's... it deftly emerges with warm, melodic
cello and higher - notes vibraphone progessions from a dreamlike silence, and only registers as a lilting, tender counterpoint to the viscerally intense imagery of ISIS - occupied
contemporary Raqqa, Syria in the picture's opening sequence well after we're already emotionally all - in invested via what will certainly be a harrowing, yet inspiring cinematic experience.