Seattle Film Festival - "We Live in Public" May 23, 2009

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

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