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 dreams. But what do our dreams see when they look back at us? like moths to light is a meditation on the future of our dream worlds in the age of neurocapitalism.
like moths to light
a film by
Gala Hernández López
Biography
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 many renowned international festivals and institutions. Her film La Mécanique des fluides won the César for Best Documentary Short Film in 2024.
Filmography
- La Mécanique des fluids – 2022 – 38 min
- For here am I sitting in a tin car far above the world – 2024 – 19 min
- +10k – 2025 – 31 min
- Like moths to light – 2026 – 26 min
