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We Live in Public (2009)

90 min · Documentation, documentary film

Popularity4.5/5
12-month trend18k1.1kExpand

12-month trend

Monthly article views

18k02025-09: 2,172 views2025-10: 1,149 views2025-11: 5,281 views2025-12: 18,093 views2026-01: 8,505 views2026-02: 5,529 views2026-03: 1,271 views2026-04: 1,209 views2026-05: 2,057 views2026-06: 2,019 views2026-07: 1,816 views2026-08: 1,420 views
Sep2.2kOct1.1kNov5.3kDec18kJan8.5kFeb5.5kMar1.3kApr1.2kMay2.1kJun2.0kJul1.8kAug1.4k

2025-09 to 2026-08

Directors

Ondi Timoner

Cast

Josh Harris

The story

The film details the experiences of Josh Harris, a dot-com millionaire who founded Pseudo.com, and who became interested in human experiments testing the effects of media and technology on the development of personal identity. To that end, Harris created the art project "Quiet: We Live in Public", which placed more than one hundred artists in a human terrarium under New York City, with a myriad of webcams following and capturing their every move. Each pod was outfitted by artist Jeff Gompertz with cameras and screens to allow every occupant to monitor every other pod.

Catalogue themes and tags

Observation, Privacy, Private Life, Private Space, Social Networking, WWW, Webcam, Culture & Society, Biography, Indie, Documentary

Genres

Documentation, documentary film

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