DEE EN’s ‘Dreamers of Prettier Beings’ manifests into a short film on solitude

Two years after its release on ‘Saturn Return’, DEE EN’s track ‘Dreamers of Prettier Beings’ reappears as a five-minute film directed by Niharika Chauhan.

Shot in Aldona, Goa, during the monsoon, the video follows a woman moving through her home and its surroundings. The focus stays on small, continuous actions; walking between rooms, pausing, observing, existing within a contained space.

The original track presents a lover from afar, shaped by admiration and distance. The film shifts that position. Instead of being seen through someone else’s imagination, the subject is observed within her own routine.

The camera remains close and patient, drawing on documentary and slow cinema traditions, with influences associated with Taiwanese New Cinema filmmaker Edward Yang.

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“The solitude here is uncomfortable, but familiar. I wanted to portray loneliness not as a flaw, but as a quiet baseline of being alive. We’re all alone in some way, and the longing we carry whether for freedom, beauty, or clarity, is something we learn to live alongside,” Chauhan shares.

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She adds: “By the end, ‘Dreamers of Prettier Beings’ becomes a conversation between two visions: the songwriter’s dreamlike figure he believes he must set free, and the grounded, solitary person I reveal myself to be. The idealised ‘prettier being’ never fully appears not because she has failed to materialise, but because she was never meant to be more than a dream.”

Musically, the track maintains a lo-fi restraint. Sparse percussion and hazy synth tones leave space around a vocal that sits between singing and spoken word, closely mirroring the visual’s elusive, contemplative tone.

Watch below.