THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME:

The Story of Sussan Deyhim

There’s No Place Like Home - a feature documentary

There’s No Place Like Home - these are the words that have rung truer for Iranian ballet dancer/diva/vocalist/performer artist Sussan Deyhim. The Iranian Grace Jones, Sussan left home at the age of 13 after being discovered by a premier ballet company in Tehran.

Exiled by one land and objectified by another, this Iranian born treasure has always been ahead of her time.There’s no place like home tells the story of an Iranian icon who was forced from her own home at the age of 21 and who continues to create home wherever she goes. Traversing the worlds of ballet, punk, rock, pop, folks, vocal techniques, and performance, Sussan’s work has influenced and caught the attention of artists, painters, filmmakers, and social justice-makers alike. Her story is her song.

With her beloved partner of 40 years, composer Richard Horowitz, they ruled the underground music scene in the 70’s with Jon Hassel, Bill Laswell, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Peter Gabriel. They traveled the world together performing at the most prestigious of venues, and have struggled through many lifetimes together.

Now Sussan has once again given up her home, this time in the U.S., for Morocco where insurance costs are lower, to care for Richard who is in the late stages of Parkinsons.

The story of a woman who finds home and creates it wherever she goes. Belonging to everywhere and nowhere.

As this Iranian revolution continues to unfold, it is a reminder of how many women artists have been speaking up for decades and have been exiled in the process. Sussan embodies art through revolution.