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For the past 5 decades, Brian Eno has been at the forefront of musical creativity, technology, and artistic innovation. This 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.

The definitive documentary about visionary musician, artist and activist, ‘Eno’ is a typically groundbreaking project - a feature film that’s never the same twice. Gary 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 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.”

Screenings:
Jun 29/ Glastonbury festival / 8 - 10.30pm / Pilton Palais tent. + Q&A w/ Gary Hustwit afterwards.
Jul 12/ UK cinema run - Picturehouse run in 17 cinemas across the country .
Jul 12/ NYC cinema run - Film Forum. + Q&A w/ Gary Hustwit afterwards at 7.20pm screening on 12th + 13th.
Jul 18/ Nashville premiere / Belcourt theatre. + Q&A w/ Gary Hustwit afterwards.
Jul 19/ Austin premiere / Austin film society + Q&A w/ Gary Hustwit afterwards.
Jul 20 / Dallas film premiere / The Texas Theatre + Q&A w/ Gary Hustwit afterwards.
Jul 24/ Toronto live screening / The Royal Theatre + Q&A w/ Gary Hustwit afterwards.
Jul 26/ SF cinema run / Roxie Theatre + Q&A w/ Gary Hustwit afterwards on 27th + 28th.
Jul 26/ LA live screening (26 +27th) / Vidiots + Q&A w/ Gary Hustwit afterwards.
Aug 22 / Montreal premiere at Mutek/ Théâtre Maisonneuve

* with the cinema runs it will be a different version each day.

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