So i saw We Live In Public at the MoMA on Sunday, and it seriously blew my mind. I STRONGLY recommend you see it when you can.
I am posting this link to the Sundance review, because it perfectly captures the way I felt after the film. I got in a cab, pulled out my iPhone to post about it on Facebook…. and I just couldn’t bring myself to do it.
“I walked out of We Live in Public ready to use my smartphone to Twitter a reaction — as I, and so many of my peers have been doing to make post-film snap judgments and endorsements during this year’s Sundance — but actually instead took pause after the film’s conclusion: Why would I be doing that? To say something real? To look clever? To reach out to a like-minded community when far from home? To be ‘First!’? To avoid actually thinking? Ultimately, We Live in Public made me take a 24-hour vow of silence from Twitter, and made me think about my own signal-to-noise ratio in the interconnected world.”