Psychologist, Author & Documentary Filmmaker

SHORT FILMS

From refugee camps, war zones, domestic violence shelters and asylums to drag bars and hip-hop clubs, Haaken’s projects focus on people who inhabit the border zones of society and their insights on the broader social order.

Kuwepo (“Being There” in Swahili) follows the daily lives of providers in Kenya as they work within the 2010 liberalized constitution to provide post-abortion care for women. The film shows how providers in a range of neighborhoods and clinical settings operate within this new political landscape.
Official Selection 2017 Portland International Film Festival
Directed by Jan Haaken
Produced by University of Michigan Ann Arbor

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Searching for Asylum

This video documents a participant action research project carried out with a group of women asylum seekers in the UK.
Directed by Jan Haaken
Produced by Jan Haaken and Maggie O'Neill

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This documentary short is based on research at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, on abortion stigma. The film follows medical specialists who talk about how they rely on abortion providers in their own field of health care.
Directed by Jan Haaken
Produced by University of Michigan Ann Arbor

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Feminists Walking the City: Revisiting Sites of Resistance in London and Portland

From Portland's Walk of the Heroines to London's streets, Professor Maggie O'Neill invites Professor and filmmaker Jan Haaken to reimagine a route from a place she calls home to a new place of belonging and to walk across a different geographical, cultural and visual landscape in London.
Directed by Jan Haaken and Maggie O'Neill
Produced by Maggie O'Neill
Cinematography & Editing by Nelli Stavropoulou

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Walking Conversations

Conference on walking methods organized by Maggie O'Neill, Department of Sociology & Criminology at U College Cork.
Directed by Jan Haaken
Edited by Maciej Klich

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