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.
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)
Awards and festivals
Best Short Film of the Tiempo de Historia selection
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