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Olena Shykina
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Olena Shykina is a Kyiv-based composer and sound artist whose practice grows from a research-driven, conceptual approach shaped by her background in linguistics, product and experience design; and a deep love for cinema, literature, theater, and fine art. Aiming for a bold, holistic, and highly expressive sonic language, she approaches sound as a cohesive system defined by the correspondence of spirit and matter. Her work investigates the physical sensation of sound — how it expands, resonates, interacts with the body, and takes on a sculptural multidimensionality in space.
Using electroacoustic methods, noise, high-frequency oscillations, granular processes, and real-time manipulation, she builds sonic environments that are expressive, bright, and physically present. The result is a practice that bridges design thinking with musical experimentation: structured yet visceral, concept-driven yet intensely emotional, expanding the listener’s sense of sonic volume, energy, and tactility.
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A timeless story, the film raises the questions of what happens if a global war would go on the final stage. It starts in a parallel reality, when the first unexpected nuclear explosion impacts vast territories,
releasing a powerful wave of radiation which has destroyed everything for hundreds of kilometers around. When the devastated area was examined, a small unaffected plot of land, surrounded by white fog was found.
As a composer, I joined the project in 2025 to create the new original score for the movie together with a composer Roman Grygoriv.
Format: Film
Category: Full-length
Genre Drama: Science fiction
Creation years: 2023-2027
Country: Ukraine, Poland, North Macedonia, Croatia, Serbia
Language: Ukrainian
Production company: Mainstream Pictures
Directors: Simon Mozgovyi
Screenwriter: Simon Mozgovyi
Director of photography (DOP): Denis Melnyk
Production Designer: Dmytro Kostiumynskyi
Directors: Roman Grygoriv, Olena Shykina
Sound Directors: Mihaylo Zakutsykiy
Film editor: Sashko Sviatskyi (Oleksandr Oduvanchіkov)
Сostume designer: Yaroslava-Marіya Homenko
Makeup artists: Anna Tene
Producer: Artem Koliubaiev, Taras Bosak
Executive Producers: Oleksandr Chepіha
Leading actors: Anastasіya Shevchenko, Ihor Aronov, Lyudmila Mozhova, Dmitro Yaroshenko,Roman Yasinovskyi, Andrіy Palatniy, Іrina Polonsyka, Natalіya Polonsyka, Mikita Skomorohov, Miroslava Ghuchkova, Denis Torchilevsykiy, Marіchka Shtirbulova