The Engineer (2023) — Closing Credits
Lee Triffon & lionel Cohen
Written and Performed by Lee Triffon and Lionel Cohen
"We wanted to write a song that would highlight the pain and suffering of the innocent victims on both sides of the conflict."
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The Story Behind the Song
"Fighting Ghosts" emerges from the closing frames of The Engineer — a film rooted in conflict, politics, and the human cost of violence.
Written and performed together by Lee Triffon and lionel Cohen, the song asks us to sit with the innocent. Not the tacticians, not the ideologues — but the ordinary people caught in the crossfire of history. With shimmering electronic textures woven through Middle Eastern melodic sensibility, the song doesn't choose sides. It grieves for all of them.
The collaboration pairs Triffon's boundary-blurring artistry — where modern pop production meets EDM and Middle-Eastern rhythms — with Cohen's decades of cinematic storytelling, his ear for atmosphere shaped by an award-winning career in independent concept albums and film scoring. The result is a song that lingers long after the credits roll.
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The Collaboration
Singer · Songwriter · Producer · Composer
Israeli-born Lee Triffon is a restless creative force who has spent her career in pursuit of the genuinely unexpected. From early prog-rock and melodic EDM to ethereal and futuristic soundscapes, she delights in mixing concepts and bending genres — crafting music that refuses to be categorized, and is all the more memorable for it.
Composer · Producer · Award-Winning Scorer
Los Angeles–based lionel Cohen is a prolific, award-winning composer with over three decades of independent concept albums behind him. His score for The Engineer — winner of the Mammoth Film Festival Best Score — fuses industrial precision with authentic Middle Eastern instrumentation, earning him recognition as one of cinema's most inventive sonic storytellers.
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Part of The Engineer (2023) Original Soundtrack · Mammoth Film Festival Best Score Winner