Gala Hernández López is an artist, filmmaker, producer and researcher. Her interdisciplinary practice combines film, video installation and writing, articulating theoretical research and formal experimentation as tools for cultural analysis. Her work delves into techno-social entanglements and new forms of subjectivity shaped by computational capitalism. Examining the imaginaries and narratives circulating within virtual communities as well as the futurabilities inspired by disruptive technologies, she treats them as shared fictions that permeate our intimacy and our collective unconscious. At the heart of her practice lies an ecofeminist sensibility that produces poetic, dreamy research-driven artworks blending materialist critique, speculative fiction, and documentary elements.

Her work has been screened and exhibited internationally, including Cannes, Berlinale, Rotterdam, DOK Leipzig, IDFA, Cinéma du Réel, Palais de Tokyo, IndieLisboa, Curtas Vila do Conde, Berlinische Galerie, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, BIEFF, Courtisane, Punto de Vista, transmediale, Open City Documentary Festival, iMAL, FRAC Ile de France, FRAC Corsica, Raindance, Centre Wallonie Bruxelles, Tabakalera Donosti, Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, York Art Gallery, Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival and the Salon de Montrouge, among others. Her film La Mécanique des fluides won the César for Best Documentary Short film in 2024. In 2025, she received the Franco-German Prize for Creative and Cultural Industries.

Her film La Mécanique des fluides (2022) is the first of a trilogy of films proposing a reflection on the processes of individuation in its articulation with algorithms and digital flows of data and capital. It is followed by the short for here am i sitting in a tin can far above the world (2024) which had its world premiere at Berlinale – Forum Expanded. The last piece of the series, +10k (2025) is presented at Directors Fortnight – Festival de Cannes.

After this first trilogy of films, she has directed like moths to light (2026), a short film which premiered at IFFR Tiger Shorts competition. She is also developing her fifth short, The possibility of an island, she is shooting I speak words of love but I see the sky falling in her spare time, and she is currently writing her first feature fiction film, Magnetic animals, part of the Locarno Residency 2025 and Ikusmira Berriak residency 2026.

She is a fellow at the Rueda program 2025-2026 of the Spanish Cinema Academy. She was an artist in residence at the Academy of France in Spain – Casa de Velázquez in Madrid 2023-2024. She has given artistic research workshops, lectures and lecture-performances in events and venues such as Locarno Film Festival, ECAM, ESCAC, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Bordeaux and Marseille, Ambulante, Freie Universität Berlin, Kassel Kunsthochschule and Festival Márgenes. She has presented her research at Harvard University, Goldsmiths University of London, University of Michigan, University of British Columbia, University of Copenhagen and UQAM, among others.

She was a PhD Candidate in Aesthetics, Sciences and Technologies of Arts and taught at Université Paris 8, ESTCA laboratory. Her artistic research project reflected on screen capture in post-internet film and art. She has been an ATER/Assistant Professor in Visual Studies and Digital Art at the Université Gustave Eiffel, a DAAD fellow at the Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf (Germany) and an associate professor in the Master’s program in Scenography and Art Direction at BAU – Center of Art and Design of Barcelona.

In 2024 and 2025, she is an artist in residence at La Friche of Palais de Tokyo and Chateau Éphémère in France, York University / Connected Minds  in Canada, Berlin AiR / Nipkow and Schloss Wiepersdorf in Germany and Art Explora Residency in Cité des Arts – Paris. In 2026, she will be a resident at Vienna Shorts/MuseumQuartier in Austria, and in 2027 at TOKAS in Japan.

She co-founded the research and creation collective After Social Networks in France and the production company 6980 Films in Spain. She is a member of the Académie des César and of the European Film Academy.

She has published poems in some online magazines and fanzines (El Coloquio de los Perros, digo.palabra.txt, El vuelo del flamenco, Manifiesto azul…), and a poetry plaquette with the publisher Ad Minimum: Amnesia of the birds (2016).

She has translated Marie-José Mondzain’s Images (à suivre) into Spanish for the publisher Metales Pesados (Chile).

She is represented by Sylvain Cochard from the Film Talents agency.

Contact email: galahernandez@protonmail.com