like moths to light
Spanish premiere.
Introduction and Q&A with Artur-Pol Camprubí (director of photography) and Antonio Miguel Arenas (film programmer).
Dreams and images, veiled thoughts, experiments to decode our mental labyrinth, an outlandish start-up to dominate what we dream. Like Moths to Light is a meditation on the future of our dream worlds in the age of neurocapitalism.
Gala Hernández's films explore issues and questions of our contemporary era with an eye toward the future. Speculations about "incels" —The Mechanics of Fluids, 2022—, about "crypto culture" and cryogenics —For Here Am I Sitting in a Tin Can Far Above the World, 2024—, and about an obsession with enrichment in the young generations —+10k, 2025— make up an emerging body of work based on a solid essayistic discourse and a renewed audiovisual language. like moths to light is an essay film that investigates and reflects on dreaming, analysing the historical relevance of dreams, their intimacy and personality — especially in the face of a new threat from our predatory world, that of corporations that study them so as to control and profit from them in the future. The filmmaker subtly moves through multiple forms and materials —fictional, documentary, archival— to interconnect a variety of themes and theories in a Farockian writing that merges layers as real as they are dystopian.
Miquel Martí Freixas
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