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We Live In Public

We Live In Public

By Ondi Timoner

United States 90 minutes 2009 English
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Awards
  • Grand Jury Prize (Winner) - 2009 Sundance Film Festival (Park City, United States)
  • Permanent Collection (Winner) - 2009 Museum of Modern Art Documentary Fortnight (New York, NY)
  • Special Jury Prize (Winner) - 2009 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic)
  • Student Jury Prize (Winner) - 2009 Newport International Film Festival (Newport, United States)
Festivals
  • Boston Film Festival 2009 (Boston, United States)
  • Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2009 (Durham, United States)
  • Hot Docs: Canadian International Documentary Festival 2009 (Toronto, Canada)
  • Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2009 (Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic)
  • Los Angeles Film Festival 2009 (Los Angeles, United States)
  • Melbourne Independent Filmmakers Festival 2009 (Melbourne, Australia)
  • Nashville Film Festival 2009 (Nashville, United States)
  • New Directors/New Films 2009 (New York City, United States)
  • Newport International Film Festival 2009 (Newport, United States)
  • Sarasota Film Festival 2009 (Sarasota, United States)

Synopsis

Ten years in the making and culled from 5000 hours of footage, We Live In Public reveals the effect the web is having on our society, as seen through the eyes of "the greatest Internet pioneer you've never heard of", artist, futurist, and visionary Josh Harris. Award-winning director Ondi Timoner (Dig! - which also won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize in 2004 - making Timoner the only director to win that prestigious award twice) documented his tumultuous life for more than a decade to create a riveting, cautionary tale of what to expect as the virtual world inevitably takes control of our lives.

Harris, often called the "Warhol of the Web", founded Pseudo.com, the first Internet television network during the infamous dot-com boom of the 1990s. He also curated and funded the ground breaking project "Quiet" in an underground bunker in NYC where over 100 people lived together on camera for 30 days at the turn of the millennium. With Quiet, Harris proved how we willingly trade our privacy for the connection and recognition we all deeply desire, but with every technological advancement such as MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter, connection becomes more elusive. Through his experiments, including a six-month stint living with his girlfriend under 24-hour electronic surveillance which led to his mental collapse, Harris demonstrated the price we pay for living in public.

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