Night and Day

For the past 40 years, Arena has made an indelible mark on the history of British television. Night and Day features famous names – the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Orson Welles, Jack Nicholson, Anita Ekberg, Luciano Pavarotti, Sister Wendy Beckett, Gerald Scarfe and William S. Burroughs – and the not so famous. Rather than making a ​“best of” compilation for the anniversary, the film is an evocation, based on Arena’s archives, of the one experience common to everything and everyone on the planet: the inexorable 24-hour cycle of night and day, from dawn to dusk to dawn again, in a feat of editing.