Total Wash Out

In 2009,the now New-York based Mendonca,returned to the Maximum City to shoot the film at her family home. “Since the character of the city had changed dramatically since the floods,there was little scope to capture the damage left in its wake. Plus,there was a drought that year. So I decided to focus on the idea of family,and how the floods invaded my home,” explains Mendonca. The destruction caused by the floods became a metaphor for the disintegration of the family and home. Jan Villa becomes a vortex,which pulls all the destruction of the surrounding environment inside. The film starts with images of the city during the floods,interspersed with snatches of conversations between family members,before focusing on the images of the house in ruins. The film was also screened last year at the Vienna Film Festival and the World Film Festival,Bangkok.

Mendonca’s previous works — Fragments,Two-Way Street,Madsong — straddle topics ranging from gender issues to feminism. “Being an independent filmmaker I can afford to be risque and abstract in my content,” she continues. The other film in the running for the Award is Vipin Vijay’s The Image Threads ,which won critical acclaim at the South Asian Film Festival,New York,in September last year.

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