One of this year's Filmmakers in Focus, Gala Hernández López’s work analyzes new modes of subjectivation produced by computational capitalism. Drawing equally on materialist research, dreams, and poetry, her work explores the imaginaries that circulate in virtual communities, the desires conveyed by disruptive technologies, and new reactionary techno-utopias as shared fictions that populate our collective unconscious. Ultimately, she dissects the fantasies of unlimited techno-scientific control over reality.
In this film program, we present her trilogy of short films for the first time in the Netherlands, followed by an interview with Gala herself.