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We Live in Public
Josh Harris predicted this would happen: We’re all slaves to the internet. We Facebook, Flickr, Tweet, and blazon our lives all over the internet. Director Ondi Timoner documents the tumultuous life of internet pioneer Josh Harris, the Warholian poster child of the dot-com days who made his millions from founding Jupiter Communications and Psuedo.com, the first internet television network. Throwing his money around like “sands in the fingers of time,” he launched a 30-day social experiment in the heart of New York City called “Quiet” in the final days of the last millennium. More than a hundred people participated, agreeing to live under 24-hour surveillance in an underground bunker. They ate, drank, showered, shot guns, had sex, underwent interrogations, and went a little crazy. Harris then turned the cameras on his personal life, installing over 30 cameras throughout the loft he shared with his girlfriend Tanya, webcasting their every move on Weliveinpublic.com. Like Timoner’s previous DIG!, We Live in Public has got guts, fast-paced editing and a well-chosen rock soundtrack (including David Bowie and The Jesus and Mary Chain). Fascinating and relevant, the film, through Harris’ story, displays the effects of our increasingly public lifestyle via the web. Director Ondi Timoner expected to attend both screenings
Sponsor:
HBO
Cast & Crew
Director: Ondi Timoner
Producer: Ondi Timoner, Keirda Bahruth
Editor: Josh Altman, Ondi Timoner
Cinematographer: Ondi Timoner, Vasco Nunes
Awards: Sundance Film Festival 2009 (Grand Jury Prize)
Music: Ben Dector, Marco D'Ambrosio
Principal Cast: Featuring: Joshua Harris, Jason Calacanis
Filmography: Join Us (2007); DIG! (2004)
World Sales: Submarine Entertainment
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The most famous man you've never heard of..., May 17, 2009
By Jeff Cavanaugh
“I'd never heard of the man before, but he made eerie predictions about the internet and its effect on society. Interesting, if a bit narcissistic (but then, aren't all documentaries, a little bit?) look at an 'artist', prognosticator, and social misfit who very likely may predict what comes next.”
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surreal portrait of Josh Harris, May 25, 2009
By Grant Potter
“We Live in Public is a surreal look at Josh Harris and his absurd art projects. People get hurt along the way and Harris doesn't seem to care. The Doc is fantastic. It doesn't try to manipulate you but rather holds a mirror up to amazingly off kilter events.”
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style AND contents, May 26, 2009
By Zheng Wang
“Even though you may have never heard of him, Internet pioneer Josh Harris was a genius, a visionary, a weirdo, a dangerous force and a tragic figure all rolled into one. He jump-started the .com boom; built a web TV operation before most people even had the Internet; and ran an ambitious "Big”
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The most famous man you never knew., May 27, 2009
By Brendan Davis
“An amazing treatment on Josh Harris, who's name I still can't remember. It details his rise in the nineties, and his subsequent descent into eccentricity. ”
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Fascinating, but definitely not for everyone, Jun 12, 2009
By Mimi Noyes
“Wow. Okay, first off? This is decidedly not a movie for everybody. This is one seriously intense documentary about a seriously f’ed up man. As the film says right at the beginning, this is a movie about one of the most infamous creators of the internet that you’ve never heard of. Josh Harris was a”
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