Heiðrik á Heygum
Heiðrik á Heygum (1983) is a Faroese storyteller who moves freely between film, music, and visual art, weaving them into singular narratives. Educated at the Danish independent film school Super16 (2014) and the Academy of Visual Art of Iceland (2017), he works across disciplines not as separate crafts but as parts of one voice.
His stories draw on mythology, fairy tales, and legend, infused with surrealism and quiet existential searching. Growing up in the Faroe Islands within a conservative, religious culture gave him both a deep sense of place and a hunger to escape it, a tension that runs through all his work.
Heiðrik’s films and music videos have been praised for their emotional depth and visual poetry, including collaborations with Nordic artists such as Brimheim, Eivør, Pernille Rosendahl, Janus Rasmussen, ORKA, and Marius Ziska. His paintings and illustrations have been shown internationally, expanding the same imaginative worlds.
Across every medium, his work moves between dream and reality, exploring identity, queerness, isolation, and transformation, always returning to the art of storytelling.