Film First and Gary Hustwit, director of the acclaimed, first-ever generative feature film “Eno,” announce the innovative livestreaming event 24 Hours of Eno on January 24 at noon EST.
Tickets are limited and currently on sale now at a $24 USD price point.
The date marks the one-year anniversary of the film’s premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2024. Since Sundance, the film has only been available in theaters and at live screenings. This livestream event will mark the film’s global streaming premiere, where anyone anywhere can experience it.
In the first career-spanning documentary about the legendary artist, Hustwit set out to decode Eno’s creative strategies and reject the hagiographic impulses of the music doc genre. Hustwit and digital artist Brendan Dawes developed a groundbreaking, human-coded generative software platform to create a documentary that is different every time it screens. The film draws from Eno’s staggering archive of never-before-seen footage and unreleased music, and Hustwit’s original interviews, but each screening of “Eno” is unique, presenting different scenes, order, and music. “Eno” offers billions of possible variations and ushers in an innovative new approach to storytelling. The result is a viewing experience that resonates with Eno’s own artistic practice, his use of technology to compose music, and his endless exploration of human creativity.
The livestream event is more than just the movie; it’s a 24-hour curated film, art, and music experience with multiple unique versions of the documentary generated around the clock. Audiences in any timezone on the planet will be able to watch several different iterations of “Eno” along with other generative video pieces like “Nothing Can Ever Be the Same,” the Venice Biennale “Eno” prequel installation by Dawes and Hustwit, conversations with the team behind the film, special guests, and other material that will only be shown during this 24-hour livestream.
The generative streaming technology will be powered by Anamorph, Dawes’ and Hustwit’s software startup and media studio.
“Eno” was recently shortlisted for the 97th Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature and received five Cinema Eye Honors nominations for Best Director, Best Editing, Best Visual Design, Best Sound Design, and its “Unforgettable” subject: Brian Eno.
Brian Eno is a musician, producer, visual artist and activist first came to international prominence in the early seventies as a founding member of British band, Roxy Music, followed by a series of solo albums and collaborations. His work as producer includes albums with Talking Heads, Devo, U2, Laurie Anderson, James, Jane Siberry and Coldplay, while his long list of collaborations include recordings with David Bowie, Jon Hassell, Harold Budd, David Byrne, Grace Jones, his brother, Roger, on ‘Mixing Colours’ and recently with Fred Again…. Brian’s latest album, ‘FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE’ was released to international critical acclaim in October 2022.
Eno’s visual experiments with light and video continue to parallel his musical career, with exhibitions and installations all over the globe. He has exhibited extensively, as far afield as St. Petersburg’s Marble Palace, Ritan Park in Beijing, Arcos de Lapa in Rio de Janeiro and the sails of the Sydney Opera House. He is a founding member of the Long Now Foundation, a trustee of Client Earth and patron of Videre est Credere. In April 2021, he launched EarthPercent, which raises money from the music industry for some of the most impactful environmental charities working on the climate emergency. In 2023, Brian was honored with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement by the Venice Biennale Musica.
Gary Hustwit is a filmmaker and visual artist based in New York. He has produced over 20 documentaries and film projects, including the award-winning I Am Trying To Break Your Heart about the band Wilco; Oddsac, an experimental feature film by the band Animal Collective; and Mavis!, the HBO documentary about gospel/soul music legend Mavis Staples. Gary worked with punk label SST Records in the late-1980s, releasing the music of bands like Black Flag, Sonic Youth, and Dinosaur Jr. He ran the independent book publishing house Incommunicado Press during the 1990s, and started the DVD label Plexifilm in 2001. With Plexifilm, Gary released over 40 films theatrically and on home video, including work by the Maysles brothers, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Andy Warhol and David Byrne
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