REV25: ENO

This documentary is literally one of a kind. It really is as no one screening is the same as the last thanks to generative AI variations applied to every film that provides 52 quintillion possible iterations. 

For lovers of this genius of electronic music, this approach is no real surprise.

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 this groundbreaking documentary.

Acclaimed filmmaker Gary Hustwit (Helvetica, Rams) sets 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. 

Utilising 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.

Feature Documentary | 2024 | USA