Lecture Monikondee

On Monday December 1st the film Monikondee is screened at 19:45. The film is preceded by a lecture in which the three directors — Dutch artist-filmmakers Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan, and Surinamese theater maker Tolin Alexander — reflect on their collaborative process with the communities and their earlier participatory documentary Stones Have Laws, also set in the rainforest of Suriname, illustrated with selected film excerpts.

The lecture is in the English language, and free of charge. Book your free ticket for the lecture and add your film ticket in the ordering process.

BIO's
Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan have worked together as an artist and filmmaker duo since 2002. Their films explore how political, economic, and technological forces shape the lived realities of local communities and the environments on which they depend. Moving between art, documentary, and collective research, their practice is grounded in collaboration.

Since 2014, they have created three participatory documentaries: Episode of the Sea (2014), with the fishing community of Urk; Stones Have Laws (2018), with Maroon communities along the Suriname River; and Monikondee (2025), with Maroon and Indigenous communities in the border region between Suriname and French Guiana. They co-directed the latter two films with Surinamese theatre maker Tolin Alexander.

Tolin Alexander is a writer, theatre maker, and performer of Maroon descent. His work focuses on intercultural and community-based theatre and is strongly influenced by Augusto Boal’s Forum Theatre. In addition to his collaborations on Stones Have Laws and Monikondee, he recently curated the exhibition The Surinamese Forest at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden.