Name: Eno at Speed Cinema
Start: 2025-04-03T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-03T21:30:00-04:00
Location: Speed Art Museum

Eno
Directed by Gary Hustwit
Thursday, April 3
6 pm, cash bar in the Speed Cinema lobby
7 pm, screening
$12 | $8 Speed members
“The generative framework makes perfect sense for Eno, a documentary about a man who’s spent his career rewriting the rules of the possible—not just finding a new way to say something, but changing the act of saying itself.”—Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times
Maverick recording artist Brian Eno co-founded Roxy Music, produced breakthrough albums for David Bowie, Talking Heads, Devo, and U2, and pioneered innovative work in ambient music. A renowned explorer of technology and “oblique strategies,” he is an unlikely subject for a conventional documentary; but in this first-of-its-kind portrait, Gary Hustwit (Helvetica, Rams) applies Eno’s own concept of “generative” art: the filmmaker’s proprietary technology, developed with digital artist Brendan Dawes, produces a different movie every time it’s screened, presenting variations in sequence, music, and scenes (including some with such collaborators as Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, David Bowie, U2, and others).
Defying the hagiographic impulses of the music doc genre, Eno draws from original interviews and the artist’s own staggering archive of never-before-seen footage and unreleased music. This iteration, created only for participating theaters, will be screened in conjunction with art houses around the country on the same day and will never be seen again. A New York Times Critic’s Pick. 2024, U.S., DCP, approx. 85 minutes.