(Ondi Timoner, US 2009, 90 min.)
Josh Harris, maybe the greatest Internet pioneer you’ve never heard of, has spent his life implementing his unique vision of the future, where technology and media dictate social interaction and define personal identity. For his art experiment Quiet, he rounded up 100 individuals who lived for 30 days in an underground Manhattan bunker under 24-hour video surveillance. He then rigged his loft with 32 cameras to broadcast on the Web every moment of life with his girlfriend, from toilet to bedroom, a project that seriously backfired. This fascinating psychological portrait of the reclusive and eccentric Harris, filmed over ten years, was, like director Ondi Timoner’s rock documentary DiG!, winner of the Grand Jury Documentary prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
(Ondi Timoner, US 2009, 90 min.)
Josh Harris, maybe the greatest Internet pioneer you’ve never heard of, has spent his life implementing his unique vision of the future, where technology and media dictate social interaction and define personal identity. For his art experiment Quiet, he rounded up 100 individuals who lived for 30 days in an underground Manhattan bunker under 24-hour video surveillance. He then rigged his loft with 32 cameras to broadcast on the Web every moment of life with his girlfriend, from toilet to bedroom, a project that seriously backfired. This fascinating psychological portrait of the reclusive and eccentric Harris, filmed over ten years, was, like director Ondi Timoner’s rock documentary DiG!, winner of the Grand Jury Documentary prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
(Preston Sturges, US 1944, 99 min.)
Smitten by men in uniform, small-town girl Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton) gets drunk at a soldier’s ball. When she wakes up she’s not only married to someone she can’t remember who’s now on his way overseas, but she’s pregnant to boot. Writer/director Preston Sturges, perhaps Hollywood’s greatest satirist, deals scathingly with the hypocrisies of soldier worship and Norman Rockwell America in his most no-holds-barred picture. Sturges regulars Eddie Bracken and William Demarest also star.
