for here am i sitting in a tin can far above the world

For Here I Am Sitting in a Can Above the World

Gala Hernández López

Un impulso colectivo - Curts France 19 min Spanish premiere Documentary

Synopsis

A woman dreams of the American cryptographer Hal Finney. A major economic crisis affects the cryptocurrency market, tens of thousands of people are cryogenized awaiting better times. Are they suspended or falling into the void? What strange relationship do we have with the future?

Themes

Spanish CinemaShort FilmFemale DirectorDocumentalExperimentalFutureHistorySci-fi & Fantasy

Filmmaker

Gala Hernández López

She is an artist, filmmaker and researcher. Her work critically analyzes new modes of subjectivation produced by computational capitalism and has been presented at international festivals and institutions such as Cannes, Berlinale, DOK Leipzig, SEMINCI, IndieLisboa, Berlinische Galerie, Cinéma du Réel, Palais de Tokyo, Punto de Vista, Documenta Madrid, transmediale, Int. Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, FRAC Île-de-France, and the Salon de Montrouge, among others. Her film La Mécanique des fluides won the César for Best Documentary Short Film.

Filmography: Like Months to Light (short, 2026), +10k (mid-length, 2025, D'A 2026), For Here Am I Sitting in a Tin Can far Above the World (short, 2023, D'A 2024), The Mechanics of Fluids (short, 2022, D'A 2023), Still Life (short, 2016)

Gala Hernández López

Film information

Director: Gala Hernández López
Script: Gala Hernández López
With: Olivia Delcán, Joseph Grossi
Contact: Don Quichotte Films
Country: France
Year: 2023
Format: DCP
Length: 19 min
Language: English
Subtitles: Spanish
Edition: 2024

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