Aksel Haagensen
  • Where Have the Kookaburras Gone?
  • Chronicles of Trap
  • Patterns by Grandmother and Grandchild
  • The Definitive Field Guide to the Birds of an Australian-Estonian Childhood
  • Vanaemale külla / Going Home
  • Põgeneme? / At sea
  • Maintenance is a Drag
  • Grandmother in a Boat
  • Other and Older
    • Adre G. Friedmann
    • Black Boxes
    • I have made these masks
    • Coastline
    • Essays on Seeing >
      • Cannonball
      • Zoom Out
      • Scaling Tall Mountains
    • Do Androids Dream of the Apocalypse?
    • Out of Shot
    • Media GIFs
    • Jerusalem Toast
    • Los Desastres de la Lifta
    • December 2014
    • Wanted Man
    • A River
    • A Tower

Vanaemale külla / Going Home     2020

Picture
​still from the film
short film, 10'35''

My grandmother was 8 years old when she escaped Estonia in 1944. She now lives in Australia.
I was born in Australia and moved to Estonia when I was 8 years old.
I recently visited my grandmother as well as the country of my birth, which is simultaneously home and foreign to both me and my grandmother.


to request a vimeo-link to the film, please write to akselhaagensen[at]gmail.com
Exhibited at Kuhu me lähme? / Off We Go! with Triin Kerge at ARS Project Space in 2020.
Exhibited at Kuhu me lähme? / Off We Go! with Triin Kerge at Tartu Art House in 2021.
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