Jason Fox: Monikondee is the second film that the three of you made together in Suriname. How did your previous films lead to this collaboration? Lonnie van Brummelen: When Dutch politics shifted drastically to the right around 2011, Siebren and I decided to make a film in Urk, a [...]
AG: There’s a personal narrative at the center of the film in the story of Merah Muda, a political exile who flees Jakarta in the 1960s to live in The Netherlands. The story is intimate — a kind of counter-narrative perhaps — that also allows for the possibility [...]
Astrid Korporaal: What is the importance of exploring an intergenerational dynamic for you? It is a key element in this film, but also in some of your previous works. Hala Elkoussy: On a personal level, it comes from the fact that I have a growing child who's now approaching [...]
What was the starting point for the film? Was it a particular place or question? In my last film, Aasivissuit (2019), I became interested in the rock dust that flows out of the glaciers in Greenland. I learned that Greenlandic rock dust can be used as nutrient to improve [...]
In 2019, Jasper Coppes produced Aasivissuit together with VRIZA’s Lonnie van Brummelen, Uilu Stories’ Aka Hansen, and a crew in Greenland and the Netherlands. The film follows two park rangers at work and on expeditions through the sunlit grasslands of West Greenland. As they talk, they exchange new and [...]