Art with a Life of Its Own: A Conversation with Gary Hustwit (opens in new tab)

Over the course of his first three documentaries—Helvetica (2007), Objectified (2009), and Urbanized (2011)—Gary Hustwit established a clean and clear cinematic language that he used to describe the complex and often contradictory systems of thinking that designers use to shape the world around us. His latest film, Eno (2024), a kaleidoscopic portrait of the legendary musician, artist, and producer Brian Eno, strips that language down to its basic grammar, then allows it to rebuild itself. En...