Eno
Overwhelming popular demand impels the presentation of:
VERY LIKELY THE LAST 7 UNIQUE VERSIONS: 9/27 – 10/2!
Co-Present by KEXP!
GROUNDBREAKING. Remixes the music doc.”– David Fear, Rolling Stone
“Revolutionary”- Screen Daily
“A template for how cinema can be re-defined in the digital age.”– The Quietus
“Remarkable”- Forbes
Visionary musician and artist Brian Eno — known for producing David Bowie, U2, Talking Heads, among many others; pioneering the genre of ambient music; and releasing more than 40 solo and collaboration albums — reveals his creative processes in the groundbreaking generative documentary ENO: a film that’s different every time it’s shown.
Acclaimed filmmaker Gary Hustwit (HELVETICA, RAMS) set out to decode Eno’s creative strategies and examine his lifelong search for the meaning of music in the first career-spanning documentary of the legendary and prolific artist.
Instead of a by-the-numbers bio-doc, Hustwit and his collaborators invented an approach befitting the iconoclast’s use of new technologies. ENO is the world’s first generative cinematic documentary and, like a musical performance that’s different every night, ENO creates a unique viewing experience for each audience. Utilizing a proprietary software system developed by Hustwit and digital artist Brendan Dawes, the film has millions of possible variations of scenes and footage drawn from Hustwit’s original interviews and Eno’s rich archive of hundreds of hours of never-before-seen footage and unreleased music.
The result is a film that resonates with Eno’s own artistic practice, his methods of using technology to compose music, and his endless deep dive into the mercurial essence of creativity.
Each day will feature a different version of the film, with a running time that varies between 85-90 mins.
“A documentary that mirrors the spirit of Eno’s music in its very form. ENO is sleek, seamless, and compelling… The documentary uses [Eno’s] observations to fuse his past and present, his evolving images and shifting roles, in a way that accentuates their musical and spiritual continuity…There has long been an aura of enigma surrounding Brian Eno, and one of the film’s delights is that he turns out to be a brainy but also quite funny and grounded middle-class British chap who has great stories to tell.” – Owen Gleiberman, Variety
“A perfect blend of form and content…It may be simply called ENO but there’s nothing simple about Gary Hustwit’s experimental film, a documentary that generates itself anew every time it screens… Brian Eno is a genius who was unencumbered by traditional music production. Why make a traditional documentary about him?” – Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com
“A clever documentary shaped by [Eno’s] own innovations… The one constant—and what makes the movie worth seeing—is the man himself. Charming, smart, sensitive, genial, and exuding an almost childlike passion for and profound (though never pretentious) questioning of the musical art-form, Eno makes for great company.” – Anthony Kaufman, Screen Daily
