Hey, remember zeitgeisty films Hype! (the 1996 grunge chronicle) and Dig! (the 2004 Brian Jonestown Massacre/Dandy Warhols documentary that was a Kimbo Slice scene away from being an underground street-fighting video)? Directors Doug Pray (Hype!) and Ondi Timoner (Dig!) each have a new documentary premiering at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival in January.
Pray—also the director of 2001 turntablism overview Scratch (no exclamation point)—is submitting a documentary titled Art And Copy, whose Sundance description reads like a college catalog entry for a humanities course: “[The film is] about the effect of advertising and creativity on contemporary culture.”
Meanwhile, Timoner has shifted focus from rock ‘n’ roll troublemaker Anton Newcombe to dotcom troublemaker and conceptual artist Josh Harris in the documentary We Live In Public. Harris (pictured, beneath mistletoe) gained brief renown as the “Warhol of Web TV” for his Y2K Big Brother bunker/art installation/social experiment. Radar has a long, NSFW trailer for the film, from which you can deduce that Harris is, like Newcombe, a megalomaniac (but without any of Newcombe’s charisma or talent).
