WE LIVE IN PUBLIC Buzz! At the NuArt in L.A. All Week!
By WeLiveinPublic. Filed in Buzz, Theatrical Release |We had an amazing opening night in Los Angeles last night with packed houses, a lively Q+A and a rocking party at the Hotel Shangri-la, I’m going to dedicate a blog post to the evening shortly. But for now, enjoy a small selection of the murmurings out there about us…
From the lead reviewer…
LA Weekly Review
GO WE LIVE IN PUBLIC Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, director Ondi Timoner’s remarkable (and remarkably unsettling) documentary We Live in Public follows obsessive self-documenter Josh Harris on his decadelong odyssey from multimillionaire Internet pioneer and Manhattan art-world cause célèbre to bankrupt (financially and emotionally), mentally unhinged exile. In 1999, before reality TV boomed or the words MySpace, Facebook and YouTube had entered the lexicon, Harris signed on for privacy-free life by launching the underground art project “Quiet: We Live in Public,” in which 100 like-minded exhibitionists lived for 30 days in open cells under the constant scrutiny of video cameras and Orwellian interrogators. Timoner (DIG!) was there from the start, and she stuck around for Harris’ equally catastrophic second act, in which he and his then-girlfriend equipped their apartment with wall-to-wall surveillance cameras and proceeded to live their lives, for your viewing pleasure, at the Web site weliveinpublic.com. Harris’ gradual implosion is both repellent and mesmerizing, Timoner’s film unsparing in its scrutiny. You can’t take your eyes off it, which may, in the end, be what Harris always wanted. (Nuart) (Scott Foundas)
Premium Hollywood: http://www.premiumhollywood.com/2009/09/25/hanging-with-the-new-flesh/
Check out the dialogue on facebook!
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=144348746469
Now go grab your friends and bring your crew to the NuArt to see WE LIVE IN PUBLIC this week. It’s a short run… don’t miss out or who’s gonna feel like the fool? You are! (sorry, I’m a little slaphappy between the hangover and lack of sleep thanks to our party last night…)
