Gala Hernández López
Directing
Biography
Artist-researcher and filmmaker. Her work combines interdisciplinary research with the production of essay films, video installations, and performances that explore new modes of subjectivation generated by computational digital capitalism. Her projects have been presented at DOK Leipzig, Cinéma du Réel, IndieLisboa, Transmediale, and the Salon de Montrouge, among others. She is a PhD candidate at the University Paris 8, where she is developing a research-creation project on screen capture and has taught for three years. She has also been an Associate Professor at Gustave Eiffel University and a visiting researcher at the Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg. In 2023–2024, she is an artist-in-residence at the French Academy in Spain – Casa de Velázquez.
Known For
In 2018, a user called AnathematicAnarchist published a suicide note in an online forum for incels – a subculture of heterosexual men whose self-pity, misogyny and fantasies of violence dominate the internet in many places and trigger offline actions in some. Did he really take his own life? Is America responsible for his death, as he claims in his text? A search for clues in the darkest corners of the net, an essay about pain and loneliness in the age of algorithms.
The Mechanics of Fluids
A woman dreams of a future economic crisis affecting the cryptocurrency market. Thousands have been cryogenized, waiting for better times. Are they suspended or are they falling into the void?
For Here Am I Sitting in a Tin Can Far Above the World
Pol is 21 years old and lives with his grandmother. He dreams of living in Miami and generating over $10,000 per month. He attends personal development events, follows online coaches, and invests in cryptocurrencies. Pol doesn't know when he'll achieve his goals to become the best version of himself. The only thing he knows is that one day, he will.
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A man takes care of his sick wife in an isolated country house. The unexpected appearance of a young blind girl will awake in him a deep desire: a desire he thought was asleep forever.
Still Life
Teaser of a movie that will never exist.
Thank You So Much
A woman talks to us from inside a machine that records her brain activity. She describes a mental labyrinth combining an old amusement park called Dreamland, 19th-century dream photographs, contemporary experiments in mental decoding using AI, and Prophetic, a start-up whose goal is to control dreams. But what do our dreams see when they look back at us? "like moths to light" is a meditation on the future of our dream worlds in the age of neurocapitalism.