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- Director: Ondi Timoner
- Producers: Ondi Timoner and Keirda Bahruth
- Executive producers: Sean McKeough, Vladamir Radovanov, Johsn Battsek and Andrew Ruhemann
- Editors: Josh Altman and Ondi Timoner
- Run time: 90 minutes
- Premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival
- First screening: January 19, 2009, 6pm, Temple Theater, Park CitySundance: We Live in Public
- Features interview with Mahalo.com founder Jason Calacanis
- Timoner previously directed the popular documentary Dig! about a rock band rivalry
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The documentary We Live in Public chronicles the life and exploits of Pseudo.com founder Josh Harris. After creating his popular website, a sort of Internet television network, Harris embarked on numerous artistic endeavors exploring ideas about surveillance, privacy and the interactions between humans and technology. Director Ondi Timoner combines interviews with footage shot by Harris and others over the course of a decade.
The film premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and won the Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Documentary Competition.
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Synopsis
The film explores the effect that the Internet has had, and may have, on society. Harris created, for his Internet television network Pseudo.com, a bunker in the basement of a textile factory in New York City. 100 people shared space together, for 30 days, living in pods without any privacy. They slept, ate, showered, went to the bathroom and were interrogated in front of anyone who cared to watch them.Official Site: We Live in Public FEMA broke up the experiment on January 1, 2000.Another personal experiment found Harris under 24-hour live surveillance, to show what will happen when people choose to live publicly. In a process that is similar to the television reality-show Big Brother, Harris had microphones and 32 robotic cameras in his home, that enabled his life, and that of his girlfriend Tanya Corrin, to be filmed.
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Josh Harris Quotes
"'Survivor' is just a managed game show on an island. I'll make Warhol's Factory happen so you can get in and be there. Those shows are managed. What I'm interested in is reality on television."Wired.com: Steaming Video (August 11, 2000)Regarding the loss of physical and social barriers: "It's already happening because people want to turn the camera on themselves. There is a pent-up desire for personal celebrity."Wired.com: Steaming Video (August 11, 2000)
Regarding a project he envisioned: "When TV first came out, it had an impact like a social atomic bomb, but the mode of intimacy that I'm presenting, which we'll experience via the Net, is going to be bigger."
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We Live in Public on Amazon
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We Live in Public Questions
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Open Thread: We Live in Public opens in New York City... have you seen it? 1 AnswerThe truth is i never seen it in new york city coz i never been there. What i know new york is a beautiful city... read more -
How is Jason Calacanis involved in the documentary We Live In Public ? 2 AnswersJosh Harris (the person the documentary is about) is one of Jason's best friends and Ondi Timoner (the director) is also a good friend of his. Because of those... read more -
We Live in Public trailer--what do you think? 7 AnswersThis looks awesome. Finally a way to see people as they really are. The problems the have, the primal instincts that will be exposed. Very raw and gritty. M... read more
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We Live in Public News and Reviews
- Cinematical: Review: We Livein Public (January 22, 2009)
- indieWIRE: Ondi Timoner, We Live in Public (January 7, 2009)
- Wired.com: Steaming Video (August 11, 2000)
- Wired.com: He Said, She Said... (February 23, 2001)
- Variety: We Live in Public Sundance Trailer (December 19, 2008)
- Wired.com: We Live in Public Tracks Net... (January 13, 2009)
- ComingSoon.net: We Live in Public
- Variety: Sundance...Lineup (December 3, 2008)
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Politicians live in an unreal world where 'everything; they do is justified and working well. We 'Joe public' know otherwise.
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macht ein klein wenig angst vor der wirklichkeit ... http://www.zeit.de/digital/internet/2009-11/josh-harris-we-live-in-public?page=1
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We Live in Public: Documentary about dystopian life online opens Dec. 4 in DC http://bit.ly/cqZ0q (trailer NSFW)
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RT @webwednesday: As we give up our privacy each day, worth watching the documentary, "We Live in Public":http://bit.ly/6kAilN #yam
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RT @webwednesday 'As we give up our privacy each day, worth watching the documentary' We Live in Public http://bit.ly/8KqG1c
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