Gary Hustwit and Brendan Dawes’ documentary, Eno, uses Brian Eno’s archive of over 500 hours of footage along with interviews with the artist. So far so conventional. But viewers won’t see the same film content at different showings. This is because the film is generated by software producing content and order that are different each time. Hustwit says, 

‘in some ways, the film is kind of like exploring the insides of his brain… it’s different memories and ideas and experiences over the 50-year plus time frame’, B-1 and the first generative feature film, teenage engineering blog 

In a Q & A after the UK showing Brian Eno suggested that the project operates like human memory, following a winding path of unpredictable associations to create a rich and complex but always incomplete, or unfinished, portrait, Michael Mejia, 2024 Sundanace Film Review.

Fascinating to see where this goes given the debate about the ethics and application of ai and the perennial problem of presenting long form oral history interviews.

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