After the cycle dedicated to Cecilia Barriga, on June 26 the new exhibition of Contemporary Visions – Latest trends in film and video in Spain – is inaugurated, a project curated by Playtime Audiovisuales (Natalia Piñuel Martín and Enrique Piñuel Martín), with the work of the filmmaker and cultural researcher Gala Hernández López.
In his work, Hernández López explores how, in the current moment, digital capitalism builds us as subjects, examining the imaginaries and narratives that circulate within virtual communities.
His work is materialized in film essays, based on research in which he dissects human desires for techno-scientific control over reality, approached from materialist analysis with a critical and poetic approach.
Gala Hernández López (Murcia, 1993) graduated in Cinematography from ESCAC (Barcelona). Master in Contemporary Film and Audiovisual Studies from Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona) and Master in Audiovisual and Cinema Studies (IMACS) from Sorbonne University New-Paris 3 and University of Paris X Nanterre de La Défense.
His films have been presented both nationally and internationally at festivals such as: Berlinale, transmediale and DOK Leipzig (Germany), Cinéma du Réel and Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (France), Indie Lisboa (Portugal), Raindance Film Festival (United Kingdom), Punto de Vista, SEMINCI, Festival de Gijón or DocumentaMadrid (Spain) and contemporary art centres such as: Centre Wallonie Bruxelles and iMAL Art Center (Belgium), Tabakalera Donosti (Spain) or Palais de Tokyo (France), obtaining numerous awards, such as the César Award for Best Documentary Short Film in 2024 for La mécanique des fluides.
With her latest work +10K she has been selected for the Quinzaine des Cinéastes of the Cannes International Film Festival 2025.
This will be the first time that his works are presented in Salamanca.
