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We Live In Public
Ondi Timoner
Categories: Documentary
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Run time: 90 min. | USA | Language: English
Director Ondi Timoner in attendance.

With her award-winning documentary DIG! (IFFBoston 2004), director Ondi Timoner spent seven years exploring the relationship between creativity, integrity, and self-destruction. This year, she returns with WE LIVE IN PUBLIC, which revives these questions, but takes them a step further: to turn the camera on all of us. Focusing on a single visionary artist, Timoner examines the increasingly blurred boundary between public and private, revealing the intimacy that gets lost when we begin to expose everything about ourselves.

This compelling film takes an entirely fresh look at the implications of Internet culture by focusing on Josh Harris, an entrepreneur who made millions developing chat software and streaming video before anyone knew what to do with it. Instead of buying mansions and cars like his fellow “dot-commers,” however, Harris invested in elaborate art projects, earning himself a reputation as the “Warhol of Web TV.” Before technology could catch up with his imagination, Harris was conducting social “experiments” that predicted a harrowing future in which everyone is under constant surveillance and encouraged to reveal their most intimate and mundane moments—an astounding prediction in light of our current age of blogs, YouTube, and social-networking sites.

Despite his uncanny ability to see the ugly side of public confession, Harris displays an unnerving inability to connect with others. Yet the beauty of Timoner’s film—which is nearly ten years in the making—is the obvious trust she gains from her subject, and the intimacy and immediacy she achieves for the viewer.

Winner, Grand Jury Prize for Documentary - Sundance Film Festival 2009

- Kristina Aikens
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This movie is amazing, disturbing, fascinating, and leaves you thinking about some pretty important ideas. It's also quite a conversation starter, because the subject Josh Harris is equal parts visionary, artist, and arrogant madman. The filmmakers wanted to blow minds and actually succeed. Incredible.

APRIL 22 - 28 2009