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 using AI, and Prophetic, a start-up whose goal is to control dream.
Gala Hernández López is an artist, filmmaker and researcher. Her work critically analyzes new modes of subjectivation produced by computational capitalism and has been presented at international festivals and institutions such as Cannes, Berlinale, Rotterdam, IDFA, DOK Leipzig, Cinéma du Réel, SEMINCI, Sarajevo, Vancouver, IndieLisboa, Berlinische Galerie, Palais de Tokyo, Punto de Vista, Dokufest, transmediale, FRAC Île-de-France, and Curtas Vila do Conde, among others. Her film La Mécanique des fluides won the César for Best Documentary Short Film in 2024.
