The Mechanics of Fluids La Mécanique des fluides
by Gala Hernández López
World Premiere shared with DOK Leipzig
In Competition 2022
Official 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.
The programmer’s eye
“The Mechanics of Fluids” takes on an all-digital form – social network comments, YouTube videos, 3D models and tab choreography – to question the responsibility of the Tinder algorithm in the hatred of women that is professed online. Loneliness is infectious, viral. Defining itself through it, a mass of strangers manages to form a community. At the same time as she exposes a whole context of violence – that is both inflicted to and suffered from – Gala Hernández López disarms the entire incel subculture because she reveals its vulnerability: "I am an incel too, I thought".
Pierre Guidez
Biography and Filmography
An artist-researcher living between Paris and Berlin, Gala Hernández López also is a doctoral student at Paris 8, an ATER in Visual Studies and Digital Art at the Université Gustave Eiffel and a Visiting Researcher at the Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf (Germany). Her thesis focuses on screen capture in post-internet film and art. She co-founded and co-directs the research and creation association Après les Réseaux Sociaux. Her medium-length film “The Mechanics of Fluids” (2022) is the first part of a series of experimental essays reflecting on the politics of the representation of contemporary masculinity on the Internet.
2022 : THE MECHANIC OF FLUIDS (SHORT) - Gala Hernández López - Director and Screenwriter
2016 : STILL LIFE (SHORT) - Gala Hernández López - Director and Screenwriter
Gala Hernández López
L’Heure d’été, Après les Réseaux Sociaux
L’Heure d’été, Après les Réseaux Sociaux
L’Heure d’été, Après les Réseaux Sociaux
Mélia Roger
by Gala Hernández López
An artist-researcher living between Paris and Berlin, Gala Hernández López also is a doctoral student at Paris 8, an ATER in Visual Studies and Digital Art at the Université Gustave Eiffel and a Visiting Researcher at the Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf (Germany). Her thesis focuses on screen capture in post-internet film and art. She co-founded and co-directs the research and creation association Après les Réseaux Sociaux. Her medium-length film “The Mechanics of Fluids” (2022) is the first part of a series of experimental essays reflecting on the politics of the representation of contemporary masculinity on the Internet.
2022 : THE MECHANIC OF FLUIDS (SHORT) - Gala Hernández López - Director and Screenwriter
2016 : STILL LIFE (SHORT) - Gala Hernández López - Director and Screenwriter