Structured as a journey, ‘Heiopei’ is a surreal escape from the monotony and grief of life in lock-down. Imagined characters wander through an emotional anti-realist fairy-tale landscape, where the familiar and the naïve provide the backdrop to scenes of spirit-possession, metamorphosis, restraint and release.

In this multi-disciplinary film digital and analogue techniques are combined. Every single element- be it drawing, collage, animation, painting and the making of digital protagonists – is created from scratch. All content, including the music was written and performed by Susanne Deeken in her studio in London.