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for here am i sitting in a tin can far above the world

Gala Hernández López
France
19' 06"

A woman dreams of the American cryptographer Hal Finney. A major economic crisis affects the cryptocurrency market, tens of thousands of people are cryogenized awaiting better times. Are they suspended or falling into the void? What strange relationship do we have with the future?

Those who believe in the future are the ones destroying it. Gala Hernández López’s for here am i sitting in a tin can far above the world investigates the free fall of an ideology of the past that is dictating the present and ruining the future. It’s the ideology of technological utopia, of a group called the extropians, the forefathers of the crypto bros. Through pre-recorded videos, López enters an imaginary, oneiric dialogue with Hal Finney, one of the group’s members, who is currently waiting engulfed in cryogenic ice to be brought back to life and enjoy his coin wealth and the financial asset that is the future. (Emil Vasilache)

Screening date and location

September 26th, 6:00 PM, Cinemateca Eforie

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Gala Hernández López

Gala Hernández López is an artist-filmmaker and researcher. Her work articulates interdisciplinary research with the production of essay films, video installations and performances on the new modes of subjectivation specifically produced by computational digital capitalism. She examines from a feminist and critical lens the discourses and imaginaries circulating in virtual communities as symptomatic fictions of a state of the world. Her work has been shown at Berlinale, DOK Leipzig, Cinéma du Réel, IndieLisboa, Transmediale and the Salon de Montrouge, among others. Her film The Mechanics of Fluids won the César Award for best short documentary and the Experimental Work Award 2023 of la Scam (France), among other awards. She is a PhD candidate at the University Paris 8, where she is developing a research-creation project on screen capture and where she has taught for 3 years.

  • Technical sheet
  • Production and distribution
  • Director and editor: Gala Hernández López
  • Voices: Olivia Delcán, Joseph Grossi
  • 3D Animations: Xinxin Kong
  • Sound edit and mix: Mathias Arrignon
  • Color Grading: Juan José González
  • Music: Diego Delgado
  • Produced by: Yannick Beauquis, Quentin Brayer, Gala Hernández López

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