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I'm your host, Elise Hugh. Film generally seems like a fixed medium. The scenes are shot, the edit is made,

and the final version is just that.

The final version.

But in this talk, filmmaker Gary Hustwood challenges the idea that a movie must tell just one story and one story only.

He shares how he made the documentary Eno about the musician and composer Brian Eno and how it's possible that this film never ends the same way, twice.

Thank you. Hey, everyone. Hi, no. Hi, I'm a and for the past 20 years I've been making documentaries about design, art, and music, but they're really about people.

And 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.

But documentary film is, its nature reductive.

Any documentary you've ever seen is just a tiny sliver of the actual story.

But what if a film could tell more than one story?

Or what if one film could tell thousands of stories about its subject?

How could we re-envision documentaries so that they were as multifaceted as human

beings are? Well, that's what my team and I have been working on, and last year we released a film

called Eno. It's a documentary about the musician and artist Brian Eno that changes every time it's

shown. It's the world's first generative feature film,

and there are billions of possible variations of it.

It's always a story about Brian Eno.

It's just a different story every time you watch it.

So you probably have some questions like,

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