Notes from Eremocene

Čákanyová challenges the idealised future driven by technology. Playfully critical, she explores blockchain and AI's potential in addressing human-made global issues like climate change and democracy crises. Mixing diary-like footage and 3D scans, she poetically highlights the conflict between humanity's analogue and digital destinies.

'From the chronological point of view Notes from Eremocene is a final film of an intuitive trilogy dealing with the same motives, narratives, and issues: artificial intelligence, a dystopian future of humankind, analogue versus digital, nature versus civilization, and climate change. Although in terms of content and form, it is actually a prologue to FREM, because it exposes the world that already takes place in FREM. With White on White, Notes from Eremocene shares a personal, diary style input, which refers to the "Private Golden Record," a motive, also fragmentarily present in FREM, but this time the setup is more contemporary and political. Using quantum physics vocabulary, we could say the three films are entangled, they "communicate" with each other, but at the same time, they stand alone in different corners of the same universe, formally quite different from each other. For me, creating these three films was a long and complicated process, and actually at some point, it was hard for me to determine when or where one film ends and the other one begins.' - Viera ČÁKANYOVÁ