ENO—Film Screening

Join us for an immersive cinematic experience as we present a screening of ENO at the esteemed Blak Box Theater in Joshua Tree, California in Dolby 7.1 surround sound. Rated PG.

Event Description

This screening is part of the series of Sunday afternoon immersive film screenings by the Cultural Center’s Hi-Desert Film Institute at the Blak Box Theater in Joshua Tree, CA. Doors (and bar) open at 3:30pm with a brief film discussion at 3:45pm, which is followed by the screening at 4pm. The screening is Sunday, March 16, 2025. This film is rated PG.

Summary: 

Critical Accliam: A Eno is a 2024 musical documentary film produced and directed by Gary Hustwit. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2024.[2] The film uses a computer program to select footage and edit the film so that a different version is shown each time it is screened.  The film draws from 30 hours of interviews with Brian Eno and 500 hours of footage from Eno’s archive, including footage of David Bowie, US, and many more artists produced by Brian Eno.

About Brian Eno: (from author Glenn Kenny on Roger Ebert.com) ~ “Among other things, Brian Eno is a pioneer in what’s called “generative art.” His work in the field began when he was an art-rock star, playing in the band Roxy Music. While he made lots of skronky sounds on early synths with those fellas, his first instrument, as he says in this engaging documentary, was the reel-to-reel tape recorder. Futzing around with it, the ever-curious Eno came to understand you could do a lot more than just make recordings with it. He started ping-ponging the inputs and outputs of two side-by-side tape machines, which could create a long delay within the sound itself; these experiments formed the basis for his collaborations with guitarist Robert Fripp on the seminal 1973 album “No Pussyfooting.” Fripp dubbed these techniques “Frippertronics,” and he’s been using them—and their digital variations—ever since. But they’re only Frippertronics when Fripp is involved. Eno on his own used them to create Discreet Music, a pioneering work in what’s been called “Ambient” or even “New Age” music. Eno’s subsequent work in generative art extended into visuals as well, including a piece of software titled “77 Million Paintings,” which, over the course of time, will produce just that.”