The Mechanics of Fluids
La Mécanique des fluides
Director: Gala Hernández López
Country: France, Spain
Year: 2022
Length: 38'
Genre: documentary, experimental
Screenplay: Gala Hernández López
Editing: Alberto Dexeus, Gala Hernández López, Aleix Fernández
Sound design: Claudia Martín
Producer: Lucas Le Postec
Production company: L’Heure d’été
Animation: Claudia Martín
In 2018, an incel (i.e., an involuntary celibate) posts a suicide note on the Reddit platform with the title “America is responsible for my death”. The Mechanics of Fluids is an attempt to find answers to his words. A virtual drift on the Internet in search of his digital traces that ends up being an inner journey between two connected solitudes.