In 1999, Internet entrepreneur Josh Harris recruits dozens of young men and women who agree to live in underground apartments for weeks at a time while their every movement is broadcast online. Soon, Harris and his girlfriend embark on their own subterranean adventure, with cameras streaming live footage of their meals, arguments, bedroom activities, and bathroom habits. This documentary explores the role of technology in our lives, as it charts the fragile nature of dot-com economy.
Direction
Timoner spent a decade on this—she watched the future coming.
Production
Actual 90s webcast footage, grainy and hauntingly prescient.
Director
Ondi Timoner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Josh Harris blew through his $80 million dot-com fortune on this experiment and died broke. The film's release party was at an Apple Store—he wasn't invited.
This premiered at Sundance the same year as Facebook hit 300 million users. The Q&A was reportedly silent for thirty seconds.
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This is a brilliant film. A lot of people do not appreciate how much of an effect the internet had on society and in retrospect we will look back and realise how lucky we were to see both sides of the fence.
@MaurizioMezzatesta 39
Nothing but a nightmare. That's all I can really say ten years after the last comment on this thread. A preview of hell and we all live there today.
@whicherestate2481 22
"they were shitting in public...and people ate it up"
@southbanktrousers2 5
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