Synopsis
In 2018, an incel posted a suicide note on Reddit entitled “America is responsible for my death”. The Mechanics of Fluids is an attempt to find answers to his words. The film is a virtual drift through the Internet in search of his digital traces that ends up being an inner journey between two connected solitudes.
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Filmmaker
Gala Hernández López
She is an artist-researcher based between Paris and Berlin. Her work articulates interdisciplinary research with the production of essay films on subjectifications and digital capitalism, approaching from a feminist, poetic and critical prism. After releasing her mid-length film The Mechanics of Fluids, she is working on her second short film, about cryptocurrencies and masculinity.
Filmography: The Mechanics of Fluids (mid-length film, 2022, D'A 2023), Naturaleza muerta (short film, 2016)
Awards
Best Short Film of the Tiempo de Historia selection
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