Eno

30 November 2024

In the Playhouse

Cinema

USA | 2024 | English | Documentary | Unclassified 18+

Visionary musician and artist Brian Eno — known for producing David Bowie, U2, Talking Heads, among many others; pioneering the genre of ambient music; and curating the very first Vivid LIVE at Sydney Opera House in 2009 — reveals his creative processes in the world's first generative documentary. Returning to the Playhouse following its Vivid LIVE premiere, director Gary Hustwit employs groundbreaking technology to let a computer decide what the film would be.

A template for how cinema can be re-defined in the digital age.

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A groundbreaking generative 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 Eno's career-long 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.

Presented by Sydney Opera House

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