Gala Hernández López
France, Spain
©Carolina Santos
France, Spain
©Carolina Santos
Gala Hernández López is an artist, filmmaker and researcher. Her work analyzes new subjectivities produced by computational capitalism, imaginaries of virtual communities, desires and futures conveyed by disruptive technologies, as fictions populating our collective unconscious. Through poetry, intimacy and dreams, she dissects fantasies of unlimited techno-scientific control over reality. Her work has been presented at Cannes, Berlinale, DOK Leipzig, SEMINCI, Raindance, IndieLisboa, Cinéma du Réel, Palais de Tokyo, Punto de Vista, transmediale, Winterthur, among others. Her film La Mécanique des fluides won the César for Best Short Documentary in 2024. She regularly gives workshops and performative lectures at venues such as the Locarno Film Festival, Harvard University or Goldsmiths.
2025 +10k
2024 for here am i sitting in a tin can far above the world
2022 The Mechanics of fluids
« It is said of a pregnant woman that she dreams of her own death », Adrienne Rich.
Hedda, a French researcher in Berlin, studies bats and suffers from haunting nightmares. Her dreams echo across time, linking her to Berthe, an 18th-century aristocrat diagnosed with hysteric pregnancy and treated with animal magnetism. Their shared visions reveal a transhistorical female unconscious, culminating in a surreal, sensory collapse.
To me, the Locarno Residency is a precious opportunity to engage in a thoughtful creative exchange with other filmmakers and mentors which will hopefully continue beyond the festival; one I hope will open for me new perspectives on the artistic and political challenges of my first feature project.
