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- We Live In Public
Director: Ondi Timoner Producers: Ondi Timoner, Keirda Bahruth Co-Producer: Jeff Frey Executive Producers: Sean McKeough, Vladamir Radovanov, John Battsek, Andrew Ruhemann Editors: Josh Altman, Ondi Timoner Interloper Films in Association with Passion Pictures for BBC Storyville & HBO. Internet pioneer Josh Harris has spent his life implementing his unique vision of the future, where technology and media dictate human social interaction and define our personal identity. At the turn of the millenium, Harris launched an art experiment called Quiet: We Live in Public. He created an artificial society in an underground bunker in the heart of New York City. More than 100 artists moved in and lived in pods under 24-hour surveillance in what was essentially a human terrarium. They defecated, had sex, shared a transparent communal shower—all on camera. On January 1, 2000, after 30 days, the project was busted by FEMA as a “millennial cult.” Undeterred, Harris struck again, this time as his own subject. Rigging his loft with 32 motion-controlled cameras, he convinced his girlfriend to allow him to record streaming video of every moment of their lives from the toilet to the bedroom. The project backfired, his relationship imploded, and Harris went broke. Mentally unhinged, he fled to an apple farm in upstate New York. Ondi Timoner chronicled Harris for a decade, culling through thousands of hours of Harris’s own footage and coupling it with rousing verite of her own. The result is a fascinating, sexy, yet cautionary, tale where we all become Big Brother. http://www.weliveinpublicthemovie.com/ Recipient of The Grand Jury Prize at Sundance 2009: U.S. Documentary. ''...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...a provocative pic that deserves an audience as expansive as MySpace...'' VARIETY ''I can't express enough how awesome this film is, or how horrifyingly revealing of where our own society has headed...You wanna talk about the film of Sundance '09? Look no further.'' Jesse Hawthorne Ficks, PIXEL VISION ''We Live in Public is an eye opener...The movie's a portrait of genius folly indulged and a spooky object lesson in the limits of technological and human connectivity.'' Ty Burr, BOSTON GLOBE
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