Following its acclaimed Sundance 2024 premiere and theatrical run, innovative film about incomparable artists comes to the small screen on January 24
The acclaimed and innovative documentary about the incomparable Brian Eno — a theatrical experience where no two screenings were the same — is finally coming to home audiences with a similarly one-of-a-kind twist: A 24-hour livestreaming event.
Dubbed 24 Hours of Eno and presented by Film First and director Gary Hustwist, the event — “a 24-hour curated film, art, and music experience with multiple unique versions of the documentary generated around the clock” — will begin January 24 at noon EST.
Film First also shared the first official trailer for Eno, which premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival and was previously only available at live screenings in theaters. Eno was also recently shortlisted for Best Documentary Feature at the upcoming Academy Awards.
“The film draws from Eno’s staggering archive of never-before-seen footage and unreleased music, and Hustwit’s original interviews, but each screening of Eno is unique, presenting different scenes, order, and music,” Film First said of the event. “Eno offers billions of possible variations and ushers in an innovative new approach to storytelling. The result is a viewing experience that resonates with Eno’s own artistic practice, his use of technology to compose music, and his endless exploration of human creativity.”
Following its Sundance premiere, Rolling Stone’s David Fear wrote of Eno, “It was a singular experience, impossible to replicate and uninterested in being definitive on anything, much the gent at the center of it all. Were you to attempt this on almost any other subject, the idea might be gimmicky to a fault. Applied to a conceptual musician like Brian Eno, who couldn’t play an instrument when he joined Roxy Music but took up the synthesizer because it was new and thus ‘there were no rules on how not to play it,’ the approach feels like it might be the only way to properly talk about Eno.”
Tickets for the 24-hour livestream — which will also feature exclusive content like interviews with the creative team behind the documentary, Eno music DJ sets, generative video pieces like “Nothing Can Ever Be the Same,” and surprise special guests — are available now.
