Hudson Valley live performance screening premiere!
ENO (2024, dir. Gary Hustwit, approx. 85min)
October 10, 2024 at 7pm
Live performance screening and Q&A with director Gary Hustwit and Galen Joseph-Hunter
Tickets: $25 (plus $5 fee)
The world’s first generative documentary is a groundbreaking exploration of the life and work of visionary musician and artist Brian Eno, a film that’s different every time it’s shown.
The only live performance screening of over 100 screenings worldwide on October 8 & 10, director Gary Hustwit will create a unique cut of the film live on stage, and the version shown at Hudson Hall will never be seen again. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Hustwit and Wave Farm Executive Director, Galen Joseph-Hunter.
Renowned filmmaker Gary Hustwit’s (Helvetica, Rams) new documentary employs revolutionary technology to explore Brian Eno’s career and creative strategies. Best known for co-founding Roxy Music, pioneering the genre of ambient music, and producing David Bowie, U2, Talking Heads, Laurie Anderson, and dozens of others, Eno has also released over 40 solo and collaboration records.
In the first career-spanning documentary of the legendary and prolific artist and the world’s first generative feature film, Hustwit set out to decode Eno’s creative strategies and examine his lifelong search for the meaning of music. Hustwit and creative technologist Brendan Dawes developed custom generative software to sequence scenes, using Hustwit’s original interviews with Eno, extensive never-before-seen archive of unreleased footage, as well as an original score by Eno.
Each screening of Eno is unique, presenting different scenes, order, music, with the intention 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.
“DAZZLING. More than a biographical documentary, ENO emerges as a brilliant and endlessly inspiring creative manifesto. Eno is an enthralling subject, whose way of talking about art and artmaking is as lucid as it is stimulating. And with its inventive generative gambit formally echoing the very tenets Eno has nurtured in his art for decades, Hustwit’s film boldly paves the way for a decidedly new kind of cinema—one that proves as soothing and as stirring as Eno’s own work.”
– Manuel Betancourt, The A/V Club
Hudson Hall’s programs are made possible with support from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.