Special Screenings – October 8 & 10 at 7pm

MSP Film Society and The Great Northern present Eno at The Main Cinema, a two night screening event featuring filmmaker Gary Hustwit’s groundbreaking and acclaimed generative documentary about the visionary musician and artist Brian Eno.

Music pioneer Brian Eno was an official presenter at The Great Northern's 2023 Climate Solutions Series discussing the arts’ role in tackling climate change with Canadian guitarist Donna Grantis. The Great Northern returns to Minneapolis & Saint Paul Jan 23–Feb 2, 2025.

This event is supported in part by Dr. Tom von Sternberg and Eve Parker.

ABOUT THE FILM

Visionary musician and artist Brian Eno — known for producing David Bowie, U2, Talking Heads, among many others; pioneering the genre of ambient music; and releasing more than 40 solo and collaboration albums — reveals his creative processes in Eno, directed by acclaimed filmmaker Gary Hustwit (Helvetica, Rams).

In the first career-spanning documentary of the legendary and prolific artist and the world’s first generative feature film, Hustwit set out to decode Eno's creative strategies and examine his lifelong search for the meaning of music. 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, as well as Hustwit’s original interviews.

Utilizing a proprietary software system developed by Hustwit and digital artist Brendan Dawes, Eno offers millions of possible variations and ushers in a groundbreaking 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 the mercurial essence of creativity as his endless pursuit.