The Spanish Gala Hernndez López wins the Csar award for greatest quick documentary | EUROtoday

The Spanish Gala Hernndez López gained immediately the Csar award for greatest documentary quick movie for 'Fluid Mechanics', a piece through which I discover the 'incel' group (involuntary clibes) and loneliness within the web age.

In her speech when accumulating the award on the Olympia theater in Paris, the 30-year-old director from Murcia stated that she wouldn’t be there with out her “feminist comrades” and he thanked his household, his staff, his associates and France, the nation through which he has developed his skilled profession, whereas including a last “thank you very much” in Spanish.

He additionally requested that values ​​equivalent to “equal opportunities, universalism, welcome, support for art and culture and the defense of public services”, which he admires in France however which he sees immediately as threatened, not be decreased. to an “empty rhetoric”, and that enable the nation to really decide to crises just like the one the nation is experiencing immediately. Palestinian folks.

“I don't conceive of cinema without the political dimension,” stated Hernández López later within the press room.

'La Mcanique des fluides', which is of French manufacturing and in Spanish interprets as 'The mechanics of fluids', explores the so-called 'incel' group, an acronym that in English refers to those that establish as involuntary clibes.

It is a subculture born on the Internet, misgynistic in nature, that blames ladies for his or her incapability to have romantic and sexual relationships.

Specifically, the quick movie is predicated on a message revealed on the social community Reddit in 2018 by a type of folks, explaining that he was going to commit suicide.

The movie is the director's response to that message and her technique of trying to find the sender, in addition to a type of digital ethnographic investigation into that group, with a feminist but in addition empathetic perspective.

A priori, Hernández López was not concerned with incels 'per se', because the director defined in statements to Efe just some hours earlier than the ceremony, however reasonably in expressing how “digital interfaces, dating applications and other platforms” are a “production factory of loneliness and isolation”, within the supposed period of interconnection.

In that search, the 'incels' appeared as a group that completely embodied that interconnected loneliness.

The director herself additionally said earlier than the ceremony that the mere nomination was already an awesome prize, because it was a small-budget work that arose inside her thesis for the Paris 8 University (Universit Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis).