The Burning Sensation (2002)

Synopsis: Burning Man – The Burning Sensation will scorch your senses as it takes you into the heart of the Burning Man experience. In the year 2000 some 24,000 souls made a pilgrimage to the northern Nevada... Burning Man – The Burning Sensation will scorch your senses as it takes you into the heart of the Burning Man experience. In the year 2000 some 24,000 souls made a pilgrimage to the northern Nevada desert to practice radical self-expression and self-reliance in a temporary, commerce-free community. At the end a 50-foot high, neon-lit, wooden effigy is burned, igniting a wild, tribal,all-night celebration. The world's largest venue for public art, Burning Man has elements of a Vegas acid trip, a nudist colony, a pyrotechnic convention, the Rose Bowl parade, a rave, the Museum of Modern Art, and a Mad Max movie dispersed over the 107 degree Black Rock desert. The film captures intense footage of several art events as well as interviews with Burning Man organizers Larry Harvey (also co-founder), Crimson Rose and Will Roger who explain how, what started in 1986 as an impromptu Summer Solstice celebration, put on by a few friends at a Beach in San Francisco, has turned into a full-blown exercise in city planning and management with a hefty price-tag. This temporary city is the 6th largest in Nevada. Some of the featured art events include "Burial In Space" by Woodpussy (a group of artists, musicians and pyro-technicians who blast their deceased founder into deep space in a 14-foot rocket of their own creation); "Nebulous Entity" and "Futura Deluxe" (two large, roving installation pieces engineered using mathematics derived from fields of neural networks, ecological systems and fractals); and a performance by artist Dea Million who stages her "wedding" to America. The soundtrack features music by Mogwai,Crystal Method, Sonic Youth, Woodpussy, Guided By Voices, Os Mutantes, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Nightmares On Wax, the Nebulous Entity, the Futura Deluxe, Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, and the Doors. -- © 2002 E Film Studios [More]