Fluid Mechanics
202238 min17+
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.
Credits
Director
Gala Hernández Lopéz
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.
