Academy

An extraordinary journey into fiction surrealism and some of the greatest artist and innovators of the past. Leonardo Buonarroti works as a clerk for the region's Academy. The Academy is an all-controlling totalitarian government ruling in every aspect of a citizen's life. Set against a snow-covered post-war apocalyptic landscape this Orwellian novel sets an austere atmosphere of unease throughout merging surrealism and historical documentary. It weaves a complex and fragmented journey from the Great Siberian Explosion of 1908 to the lives of artists and innventors including da Vinci Von Zeppelin and the Russian explorer Kulik. On his journey from the Academy to the Underground Leonardo discovers the lies and truths in his own life.