The winner of the 2020 Ji.hlava IDFF, White on White began as a complementary by-product, emerging during the shooting of the documentary film FREM in Antarctica. The film takes the form of an original, personal essay/self-portrait in which the director muses on the absurdity of human existence in the face of the desolate sterility of the icy wastes. It is presented as a personal video diary, a visual meditation in which every human effort comes across as a foreign, naïve intervention into the majestic cycle of cosmic forces. The extremity of her situation leads the director away from her original aim of making a film about artificial intelligence (FREM) set in Antarctica, impelling her to redirect her gaze inwards, into the depths of her own psyche. The result is a reflection on the trajectory of a technologically advanced society and the role of the individual within it, a meditation on the state of civilization and its path towards destruction, possibly even extinction.