The groundbreaking generative documentary about visionary musician and artist Brian Eno, a film that’s different every time it’s shown.

Academy Awards® Shortlist: Best Documentary Feature

“One of the 10 Best Films of 2024” -New York Times

“Thrillingly inventive... a groundbreaking portrait that tears up the rules of cinema and reinvents itself with each new screening.” -The Guardian

“Revolutionary” -Screen Daily

“Groundbreaking” -Variety

“A new frontier in filmmaking” -Time Out

“Remarkable” -Forbes

“Partly a piece of art, partly an experiment in technology, Eno is a film that changes with every screening.” -The Wrap

“A film like this gives us an opportunity to think about what cinema actually is, and where new technology fits into the process of how we make movies.” -BBC News

Five Cinema Eye Nominations!

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.

Eno had its World Premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, and is currently screening at special live events worldwide. The film had a record-breaking 12-week cinema run at Film Forum in New York, and has grossed over $1M theatrically so far. Read about the film in The New York Times, Variety, LA Times, The Wrap, Indiewire, Screen Daily, Rolling Stone, Forbes…

The film will have its Global Streaming Premiere January 24, with a 24-hour livestream event. Viewers in any timezone on the planet will be able to watch multiple unique versions of the documentary generated around the clock and much more.

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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