Eno

Over the past 50 years, British producer, musician and artist Brian Eno has had a significant influence on pop music. His career began as a founding member of Roxy Musik in the early 1970s. After leaving the band, he became a pioneer of ambient music and as a ‘sonic landscaper’, as he calls himself, shaped the sound of David Bowie, U2, Talking Heads, Coldplay and many others. The film portrait ENO by Gary Hustwit does justice to this versatility in a very unusual way: with the help of A.I., the abundance of material is combined in a unique way for each screening. The version shown at the Poolinale has never been seen before.

Hustwit thus adopts Eno's approach to ‘generative’ art: the technology used, which was developed by digital artist Brendan Dawes, varies interview passages and music scenes, including Eno's collaborations with Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, David Bowie, U2 and others. Let us be surprised!

‘Groundbreaking. Remixes the music documentary’
Rolling Stone

»There has long been an aura of enigma surrounding Brian Eno, and one of the film’s delights is that he turns out to be a brainy but also quite funny and grounded middle-class British chap who has great stories to tell.«
Variety

»Revolutionary…A clever documentary shaped by [Eno’s] own innovations… The one constant—and what makes the movie worth seeing—is the man himself. Charming, smart, sensitive, genial, and exuding an almost childlike passion for and profound (though never pretentious) questioning of the musical art-form, Eno makes for great company.«
Screen Daily

»A template for how cinema can be re-defined in the digital age«
The Quietus

»There’s a pure joy to this documentary, a sense that creativity is miraculous and we ought to be grateful that we get to participate in it…[Brian] Eno, one of the most innovative and celebrated musicians and producers of his generation, has fiddled with randomness in his musical practice for decades, often propelled along by new technologies…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.«
The New York Times

»Remarkable«
Forbes