We Live in PublicOndi Timoner

Former Internet millionaire Josh Harris has always been fascinated by the influence of new media on day-to-day life. In 1999, Harris launched his own Big Brother avant la lettre by starting an experiment in New York City, in which around 100 artists were placed in a room, filmed, and followed on the Internet every second of the day. According to Harris, the project "Quiet, We Live in Public" was an analogy for what Internet would really come to look like. Sleeping, showering, having sex -- everything was filmed, watched, and commented upon within the community. After the inevitable implosion of "Quiet," this "Warhol of the web" stuffed his apartment with cameras to provide Internet users with insight into everyday life of him and his (first real) girlfriend. They would become the first ‘public couple’. The new project also failed, and that was when a lonely and penniless Harris left for Ethiopia. Filmmaker Ondi Timoner was one of the residents in the "Quiet" project and spent 10 years worming her way around Harris's life. We Live in Public tells the fascinating story of how man is more and more inclined to give up privacy to become part of an abstract community.



Vertoond op editie(s) 2010
Screened at edition(s) 2010

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Directed by Ondi Timoner
VS
2009 90 min.
Engels
No subtitles

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International selection

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Director

Ondi Timoner

Production company

Interloper FIlms

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