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This Movie Changes Every Time You Watch It | Gary Hustwit | TED

Film is generally a fixed medium: the scenes are shot, the edits are made, and the final version is the one and only movie you’ll see. Filmmaker Gary Hustwit flips this convention on its head, introducing his project “Eno” — a documentary about the musician and composer Brian Eno that reinvents itself every time you…

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Film is generally a fixed medium: the scenes are shot, the edits are made, and the final version is the one and only movie you’ll see. Filmmaker Gary Hustwit flips this convention on its head, introducing his project “Eno” — a documentary about the musician and composer Brian Eno that reinvents itself every time you watch it … and is never the same twice. (Recorded at TED2025 on April 11, 2025)

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  1. @TheSpriteGod

    January 20, 2026 at 4:00 pm

    First

  2. @austinbraswell189

    January 20, 2026 at 4:05 pm

    AI is vapid, vacuous, and an abhorrent attack on the human endeavor.

    • @n.chabot1217

      January 20, 2026 at 4:17 pm

      They literally said in the video they didn’t use AI

    • @ChaossX77

      January 20, 2026 at 4:36 pm

      ​​@n.chabot1217 He said many times it’s generative. They just didn’t use Ai to write the code for the software.

    • @n.chabot1217

      January 20, 2026 at 4:47 pm

      @ChaossX77 Generative doesn’t mean they used AI, it just means that they use a computer to do it. None of the footage is AI generated, it just uses a program to randomly determine which footage gets put in the movie.

    • @rabokarabekian409

      January 20, 2026 at 5:12 pm

      Ai has its parameters dictated by humans, is trained on human content, and outputs content for humans.
      So, I agree with your assessments and then some, butt cuz ain’t nuthin worse than HI slop.
      The Butlerian Jihad certainly did not stop CHOAM.

    • @richhackney

      January 20, 2026 at 5:17 pm

      @n.chabot1217 which means a computer edits the movie, not a human

  3. @alexperfect9435

    January 20, 2026 at 4:08 pm

    They kinda explored something similar in Black Mirrors Bandersnatch. Well in limited choices version I guess.

  4. @ChaossX77

    January 20, 2026 at 4:09 pm

    2:07 No we haven’t.

    • @Xandercorp

      January 20, 2026 at 7:15 pm

      what he said ^^

  5. @n.chabot1217

    January 20, 2026 at 4:20 pm

    The idea of a roguelike movie is pretty neat

  6. @Asimut30

    January 20, 2026 at 4:46 pm

    9:11 perfect box office success strategy 😅🎉

  7. @YT-Kenpachi

    January 20, 2026 at 6:10 pm

    Once A.I. is able to write scripts, the entire industry will collapse, not because people won’t like the stories they’re being fed, but because everyone will start doubting writers who claim they didn’t use it.

    And just like the internet is already dying under a flood of junk images and videos generated by A.I., the same thing will happen to movies and TV shows.

    So anyone who praises A.I., or who doesn’t have the balls to openly say that A.I. is garbage and that it will kill the movie, TV, and novel industries, is delusional.

    By 2030, it’ll be all reality shows.
    See ya.

    • @n.chabot1217

      January 20, 2026 at 6:29 pm

      I think you might be drastically overestimating the number of people who care about whether or not people use AI. Most people won’t complain about things like that as long as they like the end results.

    • @JustChilling-JC001

      January 20, 2026 at 7:28 pm

      Ai is improving our lives

      Who cares if content is made by humans or by ai, if it’s entertaining I’ll watch it and enjoy it

      Stop crying

    • @YT-Kenpachi

      January 20, 2026 at 11:03 pm

      @JustChilling-JC001oh yeah let’s have the less creative generation ever. 👏

    • @Schmidtelpunkt

      January 21, 2026 at 9:10 am

      @n.chabot1217 Yes, most people are just mindless consumers who are happiest when they are allowed to act like NPCs.

  8. @guy1137

    January 20, 2026 at 6:18 pm

    No creativity of the human expression. Just bits and pieces of it thrown together by a computer. NOT art!

    • @n.chabot1217

      January 20, 2026 at 6:31 pm

      Are roguelikes not art then?

  9. @LiveID138

    January 20, 2026 at 6:22 pm

    kinda like bandersnatch then

  10. @shambolicguru

    January 20, 2026 at 6:39 pm

    oh look, another ad for AI

  11. @mathewemmanuelc

    January 20, 2026 at 6:43 pm

    NO ONE asked for this. It’s just humans looking for ways to make AI useful

    • @n.chabot1217

      January 20, 2026 at 7:43 pm

      They didn’t use any AI in the movie, they just used a program to randomize which footage gets shown.

    • @mathewemmanuelc

      January 20, 2026 at 8:25 pm

      ​@n.chabot1217 nope from what I understood it’s not just random because it ensures they rhyme and except if they train it individually on each film/documentary i think they’re just using other words to avoid saying they used AI

    • @n.chabot1217

      January 20, 2026 at 9:40 pm

      @mathewemmanuelc You are misunderstanding. They sorted the footage into different categories so the software knows where each scene would be appropriate. There are no LLMs involved in this process. This is how games that use procedural generation like Minecraft work.

  12. @brumbogan

    January 20, 2026 at 7:02 pm

    what a load of sad nonsense.

  13. @jasonvagner

    January 20, 2026 at 7:32 pm

    I respect Gary’s work but, no.

    • @scottluker9119

      January 20, 2026 at 10:06 pm

      I kinda agree. I also don’t want to watch a movie over and over.

  14. @TheJaronman

    January 20, 2026 at 9:30 pm

    All the people complaining about AI when it wasn’t even used for this in the way they’re thinking 🤦‍♂️

  15. @scottluker9119

    January 20, 2026 at 10:08 pm

    8:47 “made for them” AI made it with an algorithm bruh

  16. @scottluker9119

    January 20, 2026 at 10:09 pm

    This puts FOMO on a whole different level

  17. @darahelfrich7189

    January 20, 2026 at 10:23 pm

    this just makes me hope that the AI bubble pops sooner than later

  18. @LaloliVisuals

    January 20, 2026 at 11:03 pm

    Brilliant! And to all the robots and morons, like he said, it doesn’t use AI

    • @cac9926

      January 21, 2026 at 6:34 am

      It will end up being piloted by AI and or using generated content lol

  19. @KushagraaDubeyy

    January 20, 2026 at 11:19 pm

    2:04 Gary it’s sad you are associated with an industry where it’s rare anybody hasn’t heard the phrase about their favourite films – You discover something new every time you see it. The oft cited examples are films of Stanley Kubrick and Christopher Nolan but I’m sure the same can be said about all of our favourite films. So it’s crucial we keep using technology to invent more ways of telling stories and congratulations on that but to discard a whole medium and the irreplaceable and irreplicable individual genius creativity of singular voices and visions is just too extreme of a position to take.

  20. @dmikewilcox

    January 21, 2026 at 1:42 am

    I hate generative AI. I do not hate this.

  21. @nokia2720-g6n

    January 21, 2026 at 5:20 am

    3:08

  22. @rickdeckard9810

    January 21, 2026 at 5:37 am

    This would be perfect for Dr Strange and the infinite Multiverse

  23. @lifemotivation6789

    January 21, 2026 at 6:33 am

    A film that evolves like the person it portrays. Brilliant idea

    • @RebeccaMoore-z5s

      January 23, 2026 at 9:45 am

      Bandersnatch – hardly original

  24. @gregluc5154

    January 21, 2026 at 7:26 am

    where can I see it ?

  25. @cleander3645

    January 21, 2026 at 11:49 am

    Ai suuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks

  26. @grimeyfresh9309

    January 21, 2026 at 11:53 am

    I like this.

  27. @ozgoodphotos

    January 21, 2026 at 12:36 pm

    Sooooo….. Where do we see it?

  28. @nadiamendoza2705

    January 21, 2026 at 3:57 pm

    it’s impressive, I wanna watch it

  29. @Arkticsnowman

    January 22, 2026 at 1:25 am

    Did you really make the film if you shoved input into a computer and it continuously craps out different versions? Won’t some of these “films” misrepresent the subject by omitting relevant information? This is another, “AI is going to make things awesome. You need to buy into it because we’re so over extended, if it fails, we lose everything. BUY AI SLOP YOU HAVE NO CHOICE!”

  30. @_abdul

    January 22, 2026 at 2:45 am

    Giving existential crisis to Hollywood? I’m in.

  31. @PiotrKaszuba8403

    January 22, 2026 at 5:13 am

    That’s a new approach to films for sure. Who knows, it might be the future in some cases, while in others it would disrupt the vision and devalue the outcome. It’s like with games having few scenarios, but not all games are made like this. Diversity is always welcome.

  32. @KMHill

    January 23, 2026 at 4:16 pm

    This is simply anti-film idiocy.

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