ENO FILM: AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
VIVID FESTIVAL - SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE

ENO
A CAREER SPANNING DOCUMENTARY
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
WITH SPECIAL GUEST GARY HUSTWIT
• 8.15pm FRI MAY 31st, 2024
• 2.30pm SAT JUN 1st, 2024
• 8.30pm SAT JUN 1st, 2024
• 4.30pm SUN JUN 2nd, 2024
SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE
Co-presented by Groovescooter & SOH
for the VIVID Festival
All sessions include Q&A with director Gary Hustwit

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“…Sleek, seamless, and compelling… Different each time you watch it… a documentary that mirrors the spirit of Eno’s music in its very form.” [Variety]

“Groundbreaking…Remixes the music doc — and Brian Eno’s entire career.” [Rolling Stone]

“Revolutionary” [Screen Daily] 

“Remarkable” [Forbes]

“A template for how cinema can be re-defined in the digital age” [The Quietus]

“… Truly one of the most inspiring works on creativity that I’ve seen in some time… Eno is pure delight…” [Salt Lake Mag]

Following it’s World Premiere at Sundance this year, Groovescooter are excited to announce the Australian Premiere of this groundbreaking new documentary about Brian Eno for the Vivid Festival with director Gary Hustwit here in Australia as a special guest for all our screenings at the Sydney Opera House.

Visionary musician and artist Brian Eno — renowned producer (David Bowie, U2, Talking Heads, Grace Jones amongst many others); pioneering the genre of ambient music; and releasing more than 40 solo and collaboration albums — reveals his creative processes in the groundbreaking generative documentary ENO: a film that’s different every time it’s shown.

Acclaimed filmmaker Gary Hustwit (Helvetica, Rams, Moog, Skate Dreams) set out to decode Eno’s creative strategies and examine his lifelong search for the meaning of music in the first career-spanning documentary of the legendary and prolific artist. Instead of a by-the-numbers bio-doc, Hustwit and his collaborators invented an approach befitting the iconoclast’s use of new technologies. The new ENO film is therefore the world’s first generative cinematic documentary and, like a musical performance that’s different every night, ENO creates a unique viewing experience for each audience. Utilizing a proprietary software system developed by Hustwit and digital artist Brendan Dawes, the film has millions of possible variations of scenes and footage drawn from Hustwit’s original interviews and Eno’s rich archive of hundreds of hours of never-before-seen footage and unreleased music.

The result is a film that resonates with Eno’s own artistic practice, his methods of using technology to compose music, and his endless deep dive into the mercurial essence of creativity.

With Brian Eno having headlined the first ever Vivid Festival back in 2009 where he curated the Luminous music line-up, we are super excited to be presenting Eno on screen, in what is a return to the Sydney Opera House of sorts, some 15 years later.