We Live in Public
2009 · Movie · Unrated · 89 min · ★ 6.9 · 76% critics
In 1999, a group of young adults agrees to live for weeks in underground apartments while cameras broadcast their daily lives online. The documentary follows the experiment’s escalating intensity and uses it to examine how technology, privacy, and the dot-com boom shape behavior and relationships.
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Details
- Years
- 2009
- Release date
- 2009-08-28
- Language
- English
- Rated
- Unrated
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 76/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.9/10 (44 votes)
- Box office
- $41,711
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you’re drawn to documentaries about internet culture, surveillance, and social experiments, with messy human behavior on display; Not for you if constant discomfort and invasive intimacy aren’t your thing.
Pros: provocative tech-and-privacy questions; intimate real-life moments; timely dot-com snapshot | Cons: uncomfortable personal exposure; repetitive day-to-day footage; bleak, claustrophobic mood
Themes
- internet
- woman director
Awards & recognition
- Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize — Best Documentary · 2009
Cast & crew
- JH
Josh Harris
as Self
Douglas Rushkoff
as Self - Author
- NP
Nacho Platas
as Self - Software Developer, Operator 11
Jason Calacanis
as Self - Internet Mogul
- CC
Cal Chamberlain
as Self - Producer/Host, Pseudo
- LF
Leo Fernekes
as Self - Surveillance Artist
- FW
Fred Wilson
as Self - Venture Capitalist
- JW
Joshua White
as Self - Director of Production, Pseudo
- JZ
Jess Zaino
as Self - Host, Pseudo
- VB
V. Owen Bush
as Self - Artist
Directed by Ondi Timoner