American entrepreneur Josh Harris has been an impresario of the internet almost since its inception. In 1986, a twentysomething Harris founded the online-research firm Jupiter Communications, which in 1998 very successfully went public and was ultimately sold, making its founder a very wealthy man. Harris then devoted himself to Pseudo.com, the company he founded in 1993, when Pseudo.com hyped itself as "the world's largest original producer of interactive streaming video programming." Nearly a decade before Big Brother, Josh Harris was playing Big Brother, creating a series of outlandish and extreme "human experiments" presented as entertainments for what he dreamed would be an ever-growing audience of round-the-clock internet viewers. In the end, Harris drove himself crazy, Pseudo.com went bust, and, eight years later, documentarian Ondi Timoner expertly captured the whole brilliant mess on film.

Taking its name from Harris's most ambitious/terrifying internet art experiment—in which 100 New Yorkers were sequestered in an underground bunker rigged with surveillance cameras and a fully stocked arsenal—We Live in Public recounts the well-chronicled Josh Harris Story™ with unprecedented depth. Timoner's film not only offers an extraordinarily rich portrait of Harris, who's presented as an ever-less-likeable head case until his truly surprising rebirth, but also provides invaluable documentation of Harris's work. More than any of Harris's individual internet art experiments, We Live in Public showcases the grand and sometimes psychotic ideas behind his controversial projects, and Timoner's film is the work of art for which Josh Harris will be remembered. If you like good documentaries, go see it.