White on White

Documentary, 2020, 74 min.
Original Title Biela na bielej
Czech Republic, Slovakia

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Director, Script Viera Čákanyová
Script editor Klára Tasovská
Cinematography Viera Čákanyová, Dominik Jursa, Tomáš Klein
Editing Viera Čákanyová, Marek Šulík
Sound Viera Čákanyová, Tobiáš Potočný
Producer Viera Čákanyová – Guča (SK)
Co-producer, Sales Nina Numankadić – Marina films (CZ)

Viera Čákanyová kept a video diary while staying at the Polish Antarctic station.

In 2017 she shot her celebrated film FREM (2019), whose main character was an artificial neural network, in Antarctica. During her stay, Čákanyováchats with various artificial intelligences, leading conversations that touch on the nature of film, art, and the meaning of life while also revealing a way of thinking, free from humanity and from an overt emotionality that forces deep introspection. Footage from the author’s routine life at the station contrast with lyrical images of the immaculate Antarctic nature, complemented with Čákanyová’s commentary and reflections provoked by the loneliness of the ice-covered landscape.