Gala Hernández
Films machinima: notes sur un cinéma amateur virtuel
video essay, color, sound, 17’ 47”, 2022, France/Germany [in French, without subtitles]
Gala Hernández is an artist filmmaker and researcher based between Paris and Berlin. A Doctorate Candidate in Aesthetics, Sciences and Technologies of Arts at Paris 8 - Vincennes Saint-Denis University, ESTCA laboratory, Hernández examines screen capture as a media in the post-internet era. She is currently a ATER/Assistant Professor in Visual Studies and Digital Art at the Université Gustave Eiffel after having taught for 3 years at Paris 8 University. She co-founded and currently co-directs the association After Social Networks. She is currently a visiting PhD researcher at the Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf (Germany) thanks to a doctoral research scholarship of the German DAAD.