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We Live In Public
 We Live In Public
Ondi Timoner
USA, 2009, 90'
WEBSITE
www.weliveinpublicthemovie.com AWARDS and FESTIVALS
Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival, 2009
Special Jury Prize, Karlovy Vary Film Festival, 2009
Student Jury Prize, Newport International Film Festival, 2009
PRESS QUOTE
"...this astounding new docu burrows into the thin and darkly funny spaces between artistry and vanity, isolation and community, collaboration and exploitation, sanity and madness..." ~ Rob Nelson, Variety SYNOPSIS
Ten years in the making and culled from 50,00 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 this 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 oversaw 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, 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 has demonstrated the price we pay for living in public.
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