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MusicTech JULY 11, 2024 - by Rachel Roberts

"GROUNDBREAKING" BRIAN ENO DOCUMENTARY FILM IS DIFFERENT EVERY TIME IT'S SHOWN IN CINEMAS

The film is features a range of never-before-seen footage and unreleased music from Eno himself.

A documentary film about Brian Eno is landing in the UK this summer, and each cinema screening will showcase a different version.

Brought to life by filmmaker Gary Hustwit, Tigerlily Productions and Film First, Eno will launch on Friday, July 12 and will play in Picturehouse Cinemas across the country, with a different version of the film played each day. This is said to have never been done before.

The documentary film consists of hundreds of hours of never-before-seen footage and unreleased music, and "employs groundbreaking technology" to deliver a different version at each showing, for a runtime of ninety minutes. The official soundtrack will also be available to stream or purchase on CD/vinyl on July 12 via Universal Music Recordings.

Hustwit and UK-based creative technologist Brendan Dawes developed generative software designed to sequence scenes and create transitions out of Hustwit's original interviews with Eno and his rich archive of footage and music especially for the unique run of each film.

Hustwit's collaboration with Eno originally began in 2017, when Eno created a score for Hustwit's film Rams. "Much of Brian's career has been about enabling creativity in himself and others, through his role as a producer but also through his collaborations on projects like the Oblique Strategies cards or the music app Bloom," comments Hustwit.

"I think of Eno as an art film about creativity, with the output of Brian's fifty-year career as its raw material. What I'm trying to do is to create a cinematic experience that's as innovative as Brian's approach to music and art."

Screenings will be available in the following locations: Bath / Brighton (Duke Of York's) / Brixton / Bromley / Cambridge / Central London / Chiswick / Crouch End / Ealing / Edinburgh / Epsom / Exeter / Greenwich / Hackney / Liverpool / Norwich / York

To find out more or book tickets, head over to Picturehouse.