The films of Viera Čákanyová
Viera Čákanyová was born in 1980 in Bratislava, Slovakia. She graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava in screenwriting and received a BA from the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in documentary film. Her feature debut FREM had its world premiere at the Ji.hlava IDFF 2019 followed by its presentation at the Berlinale 2020. The film was screened at more than two dozen important international film festivals around the world. Her subsequent film White on White won the main prize at the Ji.hlava IDFF in 2020 and was selected for the main competitions at the prestigious Sheffield DocFest and ZagrebDox. Besides working on her own films, she also works as a script editor and editor of independent film projects and makes documentary films for non-profit organizations and television. In 2023, here film Notes from Eremocene is selected at RIDM.
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FREM
As the climate crisis becomes increasingly urgent, and artificial intelligence expands exponentially, _FREM_ presents a striking and sometimes uncomfortable reaction to the current wave of post-humanist, anthropocentric thinking. A unique and wildly experimental documentary, Viera Čákanyová’s film provides a haunting and futurist portrayal of one of the most beautiful yet extreme landscapes on ...
Alda
Mrs O. suffers from Alzheimer's disease. Her story is told by combining documentary footage with her own filmed diaries, which she shoots using a portable digital camera. With this device, she records instructions for various activities in her daily life, memories, thoughts and comments, trying to preserve them from being forgotten in her memoryless future. Through the individual story of a gra...
White on White
_White on White_ is director Viera Čákanyová’s video diary that she kept while staying at the Polish Antarctic station, where in 2017 she shot the film _FREM,_ whose main character was an artificial neural network. During her stay, the author chats with various artificial intelligences, leading conversations that touch on the nature of film, art, and the meaning of life while also revealing a w...
FREM
As the climate crisis becomes increasingly urgent, and artificial intelligence expands exponentially, _FREM_ presents a striking and sometimes uncomfortable reaction to the current wave of post-humanist, anthropocentric thinking. A unique and wildly experimental documentary, Viera Čákanyová’s film provides a haunting and futurist portrayal of one of the most beautiful yet extreme landscapes on ...
Alda
Mrs O. suffers from Alzheimer's disease. Her story is told by combining documentary footage with her own filmed diaries, which she shoots using a portable digital camera. With this device, she records instructions for various activities in her daily life, memories, thoughts and comments, trying to preserve them from being forgotten in her memoryless future. Through the individual story of a gra...
White on White
_White on White_ is director Viera Čákanyová’s video diary that she kept while staying at the Polish Antarctic station, where in 2017 she shot the film _FREM,_ whose main character was an artificial neural network. During her stay, the author chats with various artificial intelligences, leading conversations that touch on the nature of film, art, and the meaning of life while also revealing a w...
