A 2009 documentary about the man who broadcast his own life on the internet before anyone had a word for it is getting a Brooklyn nightclub screening, with its director and its subject on the panel afterward. nuclear cinema, the independent screening series founded by filmmaker Oluwasegun Oyetunde, will show Ondi Timoner’s “We Live in Public” at Signal, 175 Morgan Ave. in East Williamsburg, on Wednesday, September 23, the series announced in a press release. Doors open at 8 p.m. and the film starts at 9 p.m., according to the event flyer, with the panel following the screening.
The night is the first collaboration between nuclear cinema and Signal, according to the release. The series has run since March 2025 at SAA, the members club in Bushwick, and has hosted more than fifteen screenings that pair lesser-known and world cinema with curated soundtracks, custom visuals and post-screening discussion. Past events have drawn crowds of up to 140 people, the release said.
Oyetunde, who is based in Brooklyn, told Bushwick Daily in an email that the series started at SAA after a connection introduced him to the space and the team there brought him in to program it. The Signal night came together the same way, through a mutual connection who introduced them. Separately, Lucia Santina Ribisi connected him to Timoner and her production company, Interloper, which is how the director came on board. “This is a pilot, but I’m hoping it becomes a regular nuclear cinema night at Signal,” he said.
