We Live in Public

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Director
Ondi Timoner
Producer
Keirda Bahruth
Producer
Ondi Timoner
Associate Producer
Austin Wilkin
Associate Producer
Meagan Keane

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Synopsis

Genre: Documentary

Ten years in the making and culled from 5000 hours of footage, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC reveals the effect the web is having on our society, as seen through the eyes of “the greatest Internet pioneer you’ve never heard of,” artist, futurist and visionary Josh Harris. Award-winning director Ondi Timoner (DIG!) documented his tumultuous life for more than a decade to create a riveting, cautionary tale of what to expect as the virtual world inevitably takes control of our lives. With Quiet, Harris proved how we willingly trade our privacy for the connection and recognition we all deeply desire, but with every technological advancement such as MySpace, Facebook and Twitter, becomes more elusive. Through his experiments, including a six-month stint living with his girlfriend under 24-hour electronic surveillance which led to his mental collapse, Harris demonstrated the price we pay for living in public.

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Ondi Timoner Documents the Rise, Fall and Reinvention of New Media

Published on: September 27, 2009

By Shannon Nystedt
movieset.com

Writer/director/producer Ondi Timoner tackles the dot-com days with a rush of imagery, editing and music to create a dizzying visual style that won her the Grand Jury Prize after the debut of We Live in Public at the Sundance Film Festival. We Live in Public follows the Internets revolutionary impact on human interaction as told through the eyes of "the greatest Internet pioneer you've never heard of" Josh Harris. Timoner documents his tumultuous life for more than a decade, to create a riveting, cautionary tale of what to expect as the virtual world inevitably takes control of our lives.

"...She did the light version," said Harris. "It was weird seeing it. It wasn't just like, 'I'm crazy, I'm losing my mind.' . . . The hardest part of the whole thing for me was seeing how fat I was. Oddly enough, that was the disturbing part..."

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