The definitive documentary about visionary musician and artist Brian Eno, and a groundbreaking generative film that’s different every time it’s shown.
“Groundbreaking” -Rolling Stone
“Revolutionary” -Screen Daily
“A template for how cinema can be re-defined in the digital age” -The Quietus
“Remarkable” -Forbes
For the past 50 years, Brian Eno has been at the forefront of musical creativity, technology, and artistic innovation. The hugely influential British musician, producer, activist, visual artist and self-described “sonic landscaper” began his career as an original member of the legendary Roxy Music in the early 1970s. He left the band to release a series of solo records and later pioneered the genre of ambient music with his 1978 album Ambient 1: Music for Airports. As a producer, Brian Eno has helped define and reinvent the sound of some of the most important artists in music, including David Bowie, U2, Talking Heads, Coldplay, and dozens of others. He also composed what may be the most heard piece of music in the world: the startup sound for Microsoft Windows. Undeniably, Eno has changed the way modern music is made.
Rich with access to hundreds of hours of never-before-seen footage and unreleased music, Gary Hustwit’s forthcoming documentary Eno employs groundbreaking technology to accomplish something that’s never been done before: a feature film that’s never the same twice. Hustwit and creative technologist Brendan Dawes have developed bespoke generative software designed to sequence scenes and create transitions out of Hustwit’s original interviews with Eno, and Eno’s rich archive of hundreds of hours of never-before-seen footage, and unreleased music. Each screening of Eno is unique, presenting different scenes, order, music, and meant to be experienced live. The generative and infinitely iterative quality of Eno poetically resonates with the artist's own creative practice, his methods of using technology to compose music, and his endless deep dive into the mercurial essence of creativity.
Hustwit’s collaboration with Eno first began in 2017, when Eno created an original score for Hustwit’s film Rams, about the German designer Dieter Rams. Says Hustwit, “Much of Brian’s career has been about enabling creativity in himself and others, through his role as a producer but also through his collaborations on projects like the Oblique Strategies cards or the music app Bloom. I think of Eno as an art film about creativity, with the output of Brian’s 50-year career as its raw material. What I’m trying to do is to create a cinematic experience that’s as innovative as Brian’s approach to music and art.”
Eno had its World Premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, and is currently screening at special live events worldwide. Read about the film in Variety, LA Times, The Wrap, Indiewire, Screen Daily, Rolling Stone, Forbes…
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Eno
2024
A film by Gary Hustwit
A Film First / Tigerlily Production
Produced by
Jessica Edwards
Gary Hustwit
Executive Producers
Tony Fadell
Stewart Butterfield
Jennifer Rubio
Bradley Horowitz
Irene Au
Derrick Morton
Danielle Lambert
Chris Cechin-De la Rosa
Tom Keaney
Executive Producers for Tigerlily
Natasha Dack Ojumu
Nikki Parrott
Executive Producers for Submarine
Josh Braun
Dan Braun
Produced in association with UK Global Screen Fund, Burns Park Media, Six Six Twelve Ltd., and Singleman Ltd.
Editors
Maya Tippett
Marley McDonald
Director of Programming
Brendan Dawes
Director of Photography
Mary Farbrother
Generative software by Anamorph
Associate Producer
Laurence Oliver
Consulting Producer
Orian Williams
Post Production Supervisor
Cooper Conley-Currier
Archive Producer
Alex Wilson
Archive Researcher
Stephen Bergson
Archive Sound Restoration
Grace Morton
Additional Cinematography
Gary Hustwit
Luke Geissbühler
Jeremy Frindel
Laurence Oliver
John O'Rourke
Ben Wolf
Sound Recordists
Jasmine Allodi
Laurence Oliver
Graphic Design
Studio Build