For Here Am I Sitting in a Tin Can Far Above the World
Gala Hernández López / France 2024 / 19'6" / DCP / colour/black & white / English / Exp/Doc
What strange relationship do we have with the future? A woman dreams of the American cryptographer Hal Finney, a major economic crisis affects the cryptocurrency market, and tens of thousands of people are cryogenized awaiting better times. Are they suspended, or are they falling into the void?
Like Moths to Light
Gala Hernández López / Spain/France/Italy 2026 / 26'28" / colour / English / Exp/Doc/Fic
A woman talks to us from inside a machine that records her brain activity. She describes a mental labyrinth combining an old amusement park called Dreamland, 19th-century dream photographs, contemporary experiments in mental decoding with AI, and Prophetic, a start-up whose goal is to control dreams. But what do our dreams see when they look back at us? «Like Moths to Light» is a meditation on the future of our dream worlds in the age of neurocapitalism.
Performance: No Man Is an Island
Gala Hernández López / 30' / colour
In this live performance, filmmaker Gala Hernández López will share and comment on her research and footage from her forthcoming film «The Possibility of an Island», shot on Margarita Island, Venezuela. She will present her ongoing investigation into CryptoCity, an initiative proposing the development of a privately organized and highly autonomous city on the island, primarily addressed to Germans disillusioned with the European project, structured in part through a DAO — a decentralized autonomous organization — and aimed at a community interested in alternative models of governance and social organization. Moving between documentary inquiry and speculative imaginaries, the films presented in this session explore the ways in which ideas that have long circulated through fiction, technological speculation, and political theory can take material form. The research follows the emergence of concrete infrastructures, organizations, financial systems, and new experiments in governance around such ideas. From cryonics to dream engineering and privately governed «free cities», the session examines how projects once associated with speculative futures are increasingly becoming part of contemporary technological, economic, and political realities.
