[5] Alongside Hustwit, artist Brendan Dawes designed the Brain One software (an anagram of Brian Eno), the generative technology which powers the film.
[6] For live screenings of the film, Swedish technology company Teenage Engineering designed B-1, a hardware version of the generative software.
[9] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 74 out of 100, based on 12 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.
[10] Owen Gleiberman of Variety wrote that "the film conjures a wholehearted and accessible experience within an experimental veneer.
"[2] David Fear of Rolling Stone described it as "a singular experience, impossible to replicate and uninterested in being definitive on anything, much like the gent at the center of it all.