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January 20, 2026 · 6 min read
This Movie Changes Every Time You Watch It | Gary Hustwit | TED
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- 1Hey, everyone.
- 2But what if a film could tell more than one story?
- 3You probably have some questions, like "How does the film change?
- 4In 2019, I reached out to Brendan Dawes, a digital artist in England, and we started experimenting.
- 5Brian Eno was the ideal subject for the first generative film.
Overview
Hey, everyone. I'm an independent filmmaker, and for the past 20 years, I've been making documentaries about design, art and music, but they're really about people. Over the years, I started to question the limitations of documentary filmmaking. Because human beings are multidimensional. There's never just one story about any of us. The documentary film is, by its nature, reductive. Any documentary you've ever seen is just a tiny sliver of the actual story.
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