american neo noir, film festival, grandma

What has flom­mist flim­mak­er Rose Men­don­ca been up to? 

Well, her neo noir opus, Laun­dro­mat (2015), was re­cent­ly added to the Newark In­ter­na­tion­al Film Fes­ti­val, which will be held 9–11 Sep­tem­ber 2016.

Late last year, an avant garde, vin­tage re­DUB of Laun­dro­mat com­piled by Flomm founder Steve Mehal­lo was screened at septt ex­péri­men­to in Sacra­men­to, CA:

The Flomm re­DUB trades in Mendonca’s con­tem­po­rary Hitch­cock­ian sound­scape for a 1930s dra­mat­ic talkie ver­sion us­ing vin­tage stu­dio mu­sic and retro sound edit­ing tech­niques – with a splash of Fan­ta­sia-like stereo.

Scene from Rose Mendonca’s Laun­dro­mat (2015)

Mendonca’s film feels like a love let­ter to clas­sic tele­vi­sion and film, “I was in­spired by clas­sic noir such as Lau­ra (1944), No­to­ri­ous (1946) – and clas­sic tv shows I used to watch when I was grow­ing up, such as Al­fred Hitch­cock Presents and The Twi­light Zone.”

Cinephiles and flom­mists alike: Please do­nate and sup­port Rose’s go­fundme cam­paign to pay for fes­ti­val trav­el ex­pens­es and a vis­it to her 90 year-old grandmother.
 
 

—louis her­nan­dez

Flom­mist Louis Her­dan­dez is ob­sessed with go­ing Bauhaus and be­com­ing The Ma­chine. Prefer­ably a drill press. Copy­right © 2016 Louis Hernandez.

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