NaFF09 – We Live in Public
Ondi Timoner
Coming off her win for Best Documentary at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, documentarian Ondi Timoner returns to NaFF (she was here last year with Join Us). In her latest film, she follows internet pioneer Josh Harris as he launches his art experiment ‘Quiet: We Live in Public’. 100-plus artists moved into pods under 24-hour surveillance. They literally lived their lives under constant watch. After only 30 days the project was shut down (FEMA declared the group a millennial cult), so Harris convinced his girlfriend to allow him to rig their apartment with 32 motion-sensor cameras to record every waking (and non-waking) moments of their lives. Not long after, their relationship buckles under the weight of the project and Harris becomes mentally unstable. Timoner deftly combines her own footage with the footage Harris captured himself and creates a disturbing, yet fascinating story of the effects of our new-media infatuated culture.
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