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Held in Black Rock City Nevada the annual Burning Man festival celebrates the spirit of communal creativity. In BURNING MAN: BEYOND BLACK ROCK a filmmaking team spends 18 months interviewing the Burning Man organization's key players in order to get an inside look at what drives this yearly event.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: MISCELLANEOUS/SPECIAL INTEREST Rating: UNRATED UPC: 085365475724 Manufacturer No: 54757-2
Depending on one's point of view, the event detailed in Burning Man - Beyond Black Rock is either a magnificent, life-transforming experience or an excuse for a bunch of drug-ridden oddballs to broast their dust-coate
Held in Black Rock City Nevada the annual Burning Man festival celebrates the spirit of communal creativity. In BURNING MAN: BEYOND BLACK ROCK a filmmaking team spends 18 months interviewing the Burning Man organization's key players in order to get an inside look at what drives this yearly event.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: MISCELLANEOUS/SPECIAL INTEREST Rating: UNRATED UPC: 085365475724 Manufacturer No: 54757-2
Depending on one's point of view, the event detailed in Burning Man - Beyond Black Rock is either a magnificent, life-transforming experience or an excuse for a bunch of drug-ridden oddballs to broast their dust-coated, scantily- (or un-)clad bodies on a scorching, inhospitable expanse of terrain in the middle of the Nevada nowhere. Given that this two-sided, extra-laden disc is proffered as an "official documentary," no one should be surprised that it embraces the former opinion. As director Damon Brown's film shows us, Burning Man (so named for the giant wooden sculpture that's set on fire on the final night) is not a concert, although there's plenty of music; it's not an exhibit, although there are many, many artists and a dizzying array of their works on hand; and it's not a festival, although a good time appears to be had by almost all. Above all, Burning Man is a phenomenon, as for one week every summer the Black Rock Desert becomes the fifth largest city in the state, home to well over 30,000 folks who create what some call "another reality." None of this happens without a good deal of work. As the film chronicles the preparations for the 2003 event, we see that an enormous amount of technical and logistical details are involved, including laying out the roads and boundaries of the "city," bringing in electrical power, dealing with local regulations (among which is the mandate that with the possible exception of a few footprints, every piece of evidence that Burning Man was ever there must be erased when it's over), and other infrastructural particulars. We meet some of the three thousand employees who labor year-round to keep it going (including founder-director Larry Harvey, who staged the first Burning Man for about 250 people in 1990), as well as a few of the participating artists ("temple builder" David Best designs an enormous structure every single year), and, of course, many of the participants. We visit "theme camps" and art installations, witness various amusements and ingenious contraptions, and listen to folks trying to explain not only what Burning Man is but what it means. Hours of bonus material (outtakes, extended interviews, deleted scenes, etc.) will help you draw your own conclusions. --Sam Graham
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Manufacturer: Lightyear
Release date: 1 August 2006
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0085365475724 UPC: 085365475724
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