To protect russians, to protect russians, because getting people, presumably, in russia to speak candidly to Western Journalists must be very hard . Well, yeah, these are people who lived in a very quiet corner of russia, and probably had never had anything to do with a journalist, even a russian journalist, never mind a foreign one. I gave them their choices. I used first names only. And, you know, gave them the choice. I also made. I made very sure to speak to them out of the earshot of ukrainian journalists as much. Ukraine and had taken aggressive action there. And you attended something that sounded very fascinating, which was that ukraines civilian Military Liaison Officers were showing films to local people about the invasion. And i wonder what the reaction was to the films as you were there . Yeah, i mean, that was extraordinary, and one of the most extraordinary things to watch. There was a small audience of older people who were watching it. I spoke to one of them afterwards,
Catherine philp is world affairs editor at the times. She s reported from war zones for decades, and recently accompanied ukrainian forces across the border into kursk. So, i was coming into ukraine for. . . I ve been coming on and off since before the invasion, and this was a long scheduled visit. Itjust so happened that it came at a time when ukrainian forces had crossed the border into russia. So, obviously, my immediate question was, can we go? can we get there? setting it up with the ukrainians was not the hard bit. Actually, it was convincing my editors and, you know, layers of management back at the times that this was a safe thing to do, or that we could mitigate the risks involved in it. Because they weren t just about the danger there. They were also these legal risks about. . . . . The legal consequences of illegally crossing into russia, which is how the russian government have perceived the trip. But you obviously persuaded them, cos you went. Just to explain, then, who yo
Its not an error with the file or a Mix Up in the screening. This is the intended result. Thats because this film is being billed as a generative documentary, a movie that, with the help of generative software, can rewrite itself before every screening. Like, were so locked into this concept of Film And Television always has to be the same. Its linear, its static, it never changes. Thats a technical constraint thats from 130 years ago. We dont have those constraints with digital technology anymore, so why are we still sticking with them . When you create something, youre doing this thing that humans are very good at, which is imagining. For the uninitiated, Brian Eno is a bit of a legend, notjust for the music hes created hes produced acts like U2 And David bowie but for his philosophy, his ideas about creativity and how art can be made, particularly with the help of generative technology