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The Warhol of the web: We live in public

Posted Mar 23, 2009

Winner of a 2009 Grand Jury Prize at Sundance - We Live In Public has to be this year's must-see documentary.

"Lions and tigers were kings of the jungle and then one day wound up in zoos.

I suspect the same thing will happen to us"

Josh Harris - web entrepreneur/media artist and star of new documentary We Live in Public. The film follows his six-month stint living under 24-hour live surveillance online which led to his mental collapse.

Eight years in the making, award-winning director, Ondi Timoner (“DIG!”), followed the exploits of Josh Harris and 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. Take a peek at the trailer below.

Josh Harris, often called the “Warhol of the Web,” founded Pseudo.com, the first Internet television network during the infamous dot-com boom of the 1990s. He also created his vision of the future: an underground bunker in NYC where 100 people lived together on camera for 30 days over the turn of the millennium.

The film proved how, in the not-so-distant future of life online, we will willingly trade our privacy for the connection and recognition we all deeply desire. Through his experiments, including another six-month stint living under 24-hour live surveillance online which led him to mental collapse, he demonstrated the price we will all pay for living in public.

We Live in Public will be the closing night film for the New Directors New Films festival in New York on April 5th, 2009.

 

Source & Photo Credit: www.weliveinpublicthemovie.com

 

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