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Timoner—the only person to win two Grand Jury awards at Sundance in one category (documentary)—was initially unsure about the venture when Harris contacted her. “I didn??t know what the heck he was talking about when he called me to ‘document cultural history,’” Timoner recalls. “He wouldn’t tell...
...director was in the process of another film at the time, but as soon as she saw the warehouse in person, she was sold. “I didn??t know what it was exactly, but that it should be documented,” she says. Not only did the residents sleep in cubicles and watch footage of each other having sex and defecating, they also were subject to periodic interrogations in a white square room, where some of the film’s most moving and vulnerable scenes take place here...
...relevance brought on by the 10-year delay and the explosion of social networking sites. “We were running to join them as fast as people had been running to join the bunker,” Timoner recalls. “I’m glad we didn??t put the movie out back then.” As the first decade of the new millennium draws to a close, Harris’ experiments as captured in “We Live in Public” force the audience to pause and consider the bluescreen cubicles...
...That’s expected.” Several students in the audience said they enjoyed the event, organized by Harvard Students for Israel, although it remained a discussion between two supporters of Israel rather than the debate as advertised. “It was very honest, and didn??t seem like anyone had an agenda beyond bringing the facts forward,” said Arun A. Viswanath ’13, who studied in the West Bank before coming to Harvard. “Both have the same interest in mind.” Ari R. Hoffman...
...convictions that citizens care about,” Sandel said. “[That would] lead to a kind of emptiness in our politics.” The discussion then turned to the panelists, who challenged Sandel on various aspects of his philosophy. Professor Niall C.D. Ferguson said he didn??t think he would “ever be enthusiastic about virtue,” saying that the word had Robespierrian connotations of “sending people to the guillotine.” Former special assistant to President Ronald Reagan and current Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy...