Starting off as a TV reporter, he upgraded his excellent war reporter experiences from the 1990s as a participant of the Imaginary Academy in Grožnjan. In this birthplace of the new Croatian documentary, Igor Mirković's acclaimed medium-length debut Orbanići Unplugged came to light in 1998. Joining his Grožnjan mentor Rajko Grlić, he will soon make his way into the backstage of Croatian politics amid the post-Tuđman change of government, and his feature-length Novo, novo vrijeme (2001) will win the audience and bring back documentaries to Croatian theatres. His equally successful Sretno dijete (2003) will give him the reputation of a nostalgic post-chronicler of the New Wave in music from the last decade of Yugoslavian socialism, and his following projects L.A. Unfinished (2008) and Lijepi i dragi ljudi (2024) will establish him as a portraitist of creative contemporaries who persist in creating their own universes opposing the world around them.
