About
In the midst of escalating wars, a granddaughter sets out on a pilgrimage, retracing the places where her grandfather survived World War II—from Finland to Russia—guided only by the voice he recorded before his death. The journey weaves personal and historical memory through site-specific rituals rooted in folkloric traditions, serving as coping mechanisms for the present fear of war.
Based on audio recordings by Eerik Murusalu (1923-2011).
The film is in development.
In Development - 77 min - Colour - 4K - 16:9 - 5.1
Director: Len Murusalu
Producers: Tauno Novek, Len Murusalu
Language: Estonian with English subtitles
Development funded by: Estonian Film Institute, Estonian Cultural Endowment
Participations: IDFAcademy 2022, UnionDocs Research & Development Lab 2025
Len Murusalu is an Estonian artist, filmmaker, and film curator. She holds an MA in Contemporary Art Practice: Moving Image from the Royal College of Art in London and a BA in Fine Arts from the University of East London. She is a UnionDocs and Oberhausen Seminar Fellow. In 2018, she founded ChronoLens, a production studio for artists’ film and expanded cinema.
Her long-term research-driven projects bridge documentary and visual art, often highlighting marginalized histories and languages, and has been presented in numerous exhibitions, screening events and film festivals, including Whitechapel Gallery, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Freies Museum Berlin, Estonian Contemporary Art Museum, ISSF Oberhausen, SSFF & Asia, Aesthetica Short Film Festival, Orion Cinema, Preambulo Costa Rica National Film Center, Close-Up Cinema, among others.
Len has contributed to several documentaries as a screenwriter, coordinated artists’ film workshops with Kai Art Center and the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, co-curated the artists’ film programme for the 2021 Tallinn Photomonth biennial, produced the Time Quartet project of 4 artists’ films, and established the expanded cinema programme for the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. She has guest lectured at the Estonian Academy of Arts, served on the board of the Estonian Documentary Guild, and has been researching and developing artists’ moving image and expanded cinema practices through AmiLab, an NGO she founded in 2020.
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