We Live In Public

Ondi Timoner's Sundance-winning film is a portrait of Josh Harris, one of the internet's visionaries and the man behind a psychological experiment that prefigured Big Brother. He was the classic young dot-com millionaire. In the early 90s, he sold his video webcasting company for a rumoured $80m, and embarked on new experimental and controversial projects. `Quiet' was a gathering of 100 of the best and brightest minds into an enclosed utopia, whose every move would be streamed live on the Web 24/7 as they ate, lived and worked. But the strange interventions of Harris meant that it began to spiral frighteningly into sinister territory. When that project was shut down, he and his girlfriend began `We Live in Public', where every aspect of their lives were caught and transmitted live, including their breakup. By now, Harris had spent most of his fortune and initially moving to an apple farm in New York State, he finally decamped to Ethiopia, where he lives now.