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July 3 - Beyond Black Rock
Beyond Black Rock, 2002 (110 mins)
By Mike Wilson & Damon Brown
Courtyard opens at 1pm with Interactive Installations and Art Installations. Screening at 7:30. Q&A immediately following.
This first-ever authorized documentary goes behind the scenes for an authentic peek at the inner workings of Burning Man from the inside out. Beyond Black Rock explores the philosophy that fuels this unique social revolution and the tireless organizers, artists and participants who efforts create and nurture a cultural force worldwide.
Beyond Black Rock features artists David Best, Bob "Wizzard" Marziewski, Rafael Santiago and many of great theme camps, performers, Burning Man's staff and volunteers. With high production values and fantastic music this is the perfect showpiece for your festival closer. Highly recommended has a showpiece feature.
WATCH TRAILER HERE
Q&A following the film with Film Maker, Mike Wilson. For the last nine years, Michael S. Wilson has been an executive at the forefront of new media development, publishing, and Internet marketing. Widely regarded as a pioneer and leading expert in development and marketing to the $30 billion computer and video game audience, Wilson has been featured in such high-profile publications as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, New York Daily News, Wired, and Texas Monthly. An entrepreneur in the highly volatile tech/entertainment industry, Mike prides himself on the fact that every company he has been a part of is still in existence and most are thriving.
TICKETS WILL GO ON SALE SOON.
June 12 - Journey to the Flames
Journey To The Flames: Same Same but Different (2011)
Journey To The Flames, 2011 (82 mins)
By Doug Jacobson
Courtyard opens at 2pm with Interactive Installations and Art Installations. At 3pm we will start our NEWBIE ORIENTATION in the courtyard. If this is your first time going to Burning Man you dont want to miss this event. Bring your questions and probably a pad and pen to take notes. And if you are a veteran, please bring your pearls of playa wisdom to share. Please dress in your playa finest because at 6:00pm we will have a BURNER FASHION SHOW . Everyone is welcome to participate. Screening at 7:30. Q&A immediately following.
If you think you have seen this film before, you are mistaken. This is the NEW EDITION called "Same Same but Different." Journey to the Flames follows a group of friends on their voyages to Black Rock City over the course of 11 years. From their initial stop in Reno for last minute supplies to the construction of their theme camp, The Petting Zoo. Director Doug Jacobson and his campmates wise-crack and offer philosophical insight on subjects from civic participation to radical self-expression. In this documentary Jacobson and crew also offer detailed explanations of the Burning Man, it’s community, volunteerism and annual art themes.
With breathtaking shots of playa art, costumes, mobile art, flame effects and fire dancing the film includes interviews with Larry Harvey, Harley K. Dubois, Will Roger and Danger Ranger. As a first person perspective, Journey to the Flames, is a great film for newbies and first timers to Black Rock City. Includes mild nudity.
WATCH TRAILER HERE
Q&A following the film Burning Man Founders, Larry Harvey and Marian Goodell, and Film Makers, Doug Jacobson and Steven Binder.
Larry Harvey is currently executive director of the Project. He serves as chairman of Burning Man's senior staff and Black Rock City LLC, its executive committee. He also co-chairs the organization's Art Department, scripts and co-curates Burning Man's annual art theme, and collaborates with artists in creating aspects of the art theme and the design of Black Rock City. He produces Burning Man's annual newsletter and writes articles and essays for the Project's website. As spokesperson for Burning Man, he is frequently interviewed by reporters, and he has lectured on subjects as diverse as art, religion, civic planning and the rise of cyber-culture in the era of the Internet. Larry is also a political planner. He supervises the organization's lobbying efforts and frequently attends meetings with state, county and federal agencies.
Marian Goodell has been a member of the 6-person ownership structure of Burning Man, an interactive, participant-oriented, week-long event, since late 1996. Goodell has been Burning Man's Director of Business and Communications since 1997; and in 2003 she added oversight of the Department of Public Works, the production team responsible for setting up and tearing down Burning Man's event infrastructure in the Black Rock Desert. In 1997 Goodell worked with Burning Man participants to create a Regional Network supporting their local communities, inspiring civic participation, and engaging people through Burning Man's ethics and values. As of 2009, the Regional Network includes over 160 individuals in 125 locations worldwide.
Doug Jacobson, the director, editor and executive producer, finds himself obsessed with sub-cultures. Graduating from USC film school in the early 90's, he has since become an award winning editor, has written several scripts, and is has been directing documentaries and music videos for years. He has since made several documentaries, including "Secret Lives of Adult Stars" a journey behind the scenes in the porn industry and most recently, “Faire: An American Renaissance”, a chronicle of the Renaissance Pleasure Faire history and sub-culture. He is currently working on "the Dominion", a true story about women in the LA BDSM underground.
Steven D. Binder, the guy who plays the ukelele and held the camera sometimes, finds himself obsessed with Doug's obsessions. His therapy bills are cheaper and who has the time these days anyway to have their own obsessions? Also a graduate of USC, Binder has worked as a writer for such shows as The Invisible Man, Tremors (the Series), Dead Zone and Star Trek: Enterprise. His feature credits include "Eating LA" and National Lampoon's "Totally Baked, A Potumentary". He is currently employed as a Co-Executive Producer on the CBS dramatic series, NCIS. And is the Chairman of the "Really, Guys, Trust Me…We Do NOT Want To Run Out Of Water" Foundation.
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May 8 - Burn on the Bayou
Burn on the Bayou (2008)
Burn on the Bayou, 2008 (56 mins)
By Matt Leonard
Courtyard opens at 2pm for Mother's Day Tea with Interactive Installations and Art Installations. We will also be making sock puppets and finger puppets with your kiddies. Start collecting old socks and gloves, notions, buttons, and bits of fabric for puppet making fun. Many of the puppets will be going to the playa for puppet karaoke at the LA CORE art installation.
Screening at 5:00. Q&A immediately following.
At the end of August 2005, Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Louisiana and Mississippi coasts devastating over 90,000 square miles. Mississippi officials calculated that 90% of the structures within one half mile of the coastline were completely destroyed.
Two thousand miles away, a group of volunteers emerged from an event in the Nevada desert: Burning Man. The unlikely group that converged in Biloxi and Pearlington, Mississippi had in common the shared experience of collaborating and building in harsh environments and the strongly held belief that when people need help, you help them first, and ask questions later.
Burn On The Bayou follows the group of volunteers over the seven months of work following the storm, and it features interviews with both volunteers and residents. This film was produced by Marian Goodell, Tom Price, Andie Grace, K and M Films, NZane Productions.
WATCH TRAILER HERE
Q&A following the film with film makers
Director Matt Leonard’s Biography:
Burn on the Bayou is Matt Leonard's first feature film. In 2006, his short film, It's On!, was very well received at its premiere screening at the Super Shorts Film Festival
in London and at the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival. He has recently directed one-act comedies for the stage at the Acme Comedy Theatre in Los Angeles and was also the Assistant Producer/Director for the Burning Man Official Video Documentation Project 2000, 2001 and 2002.
Editor Zachary Cole’s Biography:
In 2001, after graduating from Clemson University in South Carolina, Zachary Cole moved to Marin County, California, where he joined Industrial Light & Magic as a digital artist. There, he worked on numerous Academy Award-nominated films, including the recent Academy Award-winning Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. After leaving ILM to start his own company in 2006, Zachary shot and edited several instructional videos for On The Flight Line Productions. He recently completed work as Editor and Producer on "Burn on the Bayou". Zachary now resides in Napa, California.
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April 10 - The Temple Builder
The Temple Builder (2006)
The Temple Builder, 2006 (55 mins)
By Dearbhla Glynn and Aprile Blake
Courtyard opens at 2:30pm with Interactive Installations and Art Installations. Screening at 5:00. Q&A immediately following.
An intimate look at the life and work of artist David Best. Best is widely known for the ornate temples he and his crew built for the Burning Man festivals and in the cities of San Rafael and Detroit. These communal art projects, Best explains, are "tributes for people we have all lost." With his use of such themes as "giving back" and the creation of "public art".
The artist uses personal narratives to highlight tenet's that are central to his life's work. Informative and entertaining the film features interviews with the artist's family, temple crews as well as presenting stunning footage of Best's mobile art and temple projects. WATCH TRAILER HERE
VIEW THE Q&A HERE
(In 3 parts)
Q&A following the film with Artist, David Best. David is an internationally-renowned American sculptor. He is well-known for building immense temples out of recycled wood sheets (discarded from making toys and other punch-outs) for the Burning Man festivals, where they are then burnt to the ground in a spectacle of light and heat.
And film editor, Rob VanAlkemade. Rob has been a director, producer, cinematographer, sound recordist and editor on a variety of documentary and broadcast productions since 1995, including the 2006 short film Preacher With an Unknown God which won a Sundance Jury Award, and the 2007 feature What Would Jesus Buy?, about saving Christmas from the Shopocalypse. Rob is currently directing the feature doc Training for the Apocalypse, which won a Pacific Pioneer grant in Nov, 2010.
March 6 - Dust and Illusions
Dust and Illusions (2009)
Dust and Illusions, 2009 (80 min)
By Olivier Bonin
Courtyard opens at 1pm with Interactive Installations and Art Installations. Screening at 7:30. Q&A immediately following.
Dust & Illusions explores 30 years of history of the Burning Man event. Born in the underground of San Francisco in the 1980s, the festival became the largest counter- cultural event in North America. It is unique in that it is created by the people who come to the event, the participants, not the organizers, and in that sense it has survived its original ideals/utopias, but the ideas have been eroded by time, pressure from the larger society. The film is a look at the evolution and expansion of the event to multi-million dollar business, and how politics might have replaced philosophies. WATCH THE TRAILER HERE
VIEW THE Q&A HERE
(in 5 parts)
Q&A following the film with film maker, Olivier Bonin. Born in France and educated with an engineering degree in microelectronics, Olivier Bonin showed an early interest in photography and film. He studied photography in San Francisco, where he found his way into filmmaking. Starting with short fictions, he quickly found a perfect symbiosis between his interest and knowledge in social movements and filmmaking in the documentary form. With his attendance to the Burning Man festival, he knew he had found a great subject combining film photography in such a beautiful environment, and a complicated human story of community building.
And Michael Michael from the Burning Man Organization. Better known as Danger Ranger, Michael is the legendary protector of our desert society. Some say he's the seventh son born of the scion of a seventh son. Others claim he possesses near borderline supernatural powers, including the ability to bi-locate and appear at two places simultaneously. This seems plausible, given his penchant for pervading the playa. In 1992 he founded the Black Rock Rangers, an institution patterned on the Texas Rangers and their historic role as guardians of a dispersed frontier society.
And Brian Doherty who chronicled the history of the Burning Man festival 1995-2004 in a book called "This is Burning Man." the story of what really happens out at Black Rock City, Nevada through the eyes of a participant. Brian is also the senior editor of Reason Magazine.
And John Law. John is an American trouble maker, culture jammer, and co-founder of the Cacophony Society. He is also co-founder of the Burning Man festival which evolved out of the spirit of the Cacophony society when a precursor solstice party was banned from San Francisco's Ocean Beach and merged with another Cacophony event on the Black rock Desert in Nevada.
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BEquinox 2015
2015 Theme – Imagine
Step through the looking glass one more time into your self created fantasy. You find you have the power, creativity, and verve to make great things happen in a world entirely of your making. Thoughts swirl like clouds torn asunder by tornados as your cast yourself forward into BEing. What was it that you wished you saw or did in your mind’s eye? Where did you go? When in the hazy mists of time was your imagination allowed to run wild through the night? How will your imagination come to BE?
Save the dates – Thursday March 19th – Sunday March 22nd
Where –
Population Cap – 999 – we listened to you. You asked that the event remain small and intimate… so, small and intimate it shall remain… at least for one more year.
Ticket sales will begin shortly after we have secured our Special Event Permit and Insurance.
Ticket price will be set once we have secured the elusive permits and insurance. We are hoping for late January 2015. We do anticipate an increase in ticket price due to the permit and insurance costs.
Returning volunteers will have early access to tickets. Not free tickets… cause as you know, everyone purchases a ticket, but early access. Yes, there is a benefit to being a returning volunteer.
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