Product Description

Join a group of friends as they head to one of the largest social experiments in the world. 40,000 people meet out in the desert to create a city out of empty desert.
The rules are simple: No commerce, bring what you need to survive, leave no trace, participants only, no spectators. Take a journey into a world of art, music, sexuality and fire. Lots of fire.
New 10 Year Edition DVD out:
The documentary - See the classic documentary covering 8 years of Burning Man.
10 Years of Burning Man montage (1998 - 2007) with music from Braingarden and Dub Pscience.
Skydiving over the Man video
Burning of the Temple of Hope - David Best describes the purpose of the Temple and its destruction.
Burn Night - hear walkie talkie chatter from Burn Night along with video of the burn.
Slow Burn visual remix from dougj11 - Relax to some slow moving visuals from a night on the town.
DMT - Happy, Happy - music video

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #52428 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-04-30
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, HiFi Sound, NTSC, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 90 minutes

Review
Unless you re hip to the Bohemian life, you may not have heard about this interesting phenomenon called The Burning Man. Every year, artists, sculptures, spiritual types, and other assorted characters living on the fringe gather together in the middle of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada and build a city from the ground up for their week-long festival/party. It takes a year to plan and 1300 volunteers to setup up the town s infrastructure and erect the Burning Man statue that presides over the festivities. Then the people come in all manner of fancily decorated vehicles, bringing with them everything they need to survive a week in the desert because the only commodities sold in the city are coffee and ice. Each person that comes to Black Rock City brings something to the festival the gift that they want to share with the other festival-goers. The city has its own newspaper, radio station, airport, and countless theme camps. For the past 8 years, Doug Jacobson and his group of friends have been attending the festival each for their own reasons: to share their music, explore their own inner challenges, or just for the 6 non-stop days of partying in the desert. They are a colorful bunch who provide plenty of humor and angst as they go about their experiences. Each year a theme is chose to inspire the artists and they definitely arrive inspired. The art projects and sculptures are amazing, beautiful, and often very elaborate and all of them are burned or dismantled at the end of the week, because nothing stays behind at Black Rock City, even the gigantic statue is torched in the festival finale. To an outsider, the point of this festival might seem like just an excuse for lots of fire and nudity, but the documentary does try to capture the freedom of expression and joy that comes from all these creative forces coming together. --the movie chicks

About the Director
Doug Jacobson, the director, finds himself obsessed with sub-cultures. Graduating from USC film school in the early 90's, he has since made several documentaries, most recently "Secret Lives of Adult Stars" a journey behind the scenes in the porn industry. Having just completed Journey to the Flames, Doug is now in working on Faire, a journey behind the scenes of Ren Faire.

Customer Reviews

convinced me to go
this was the most accessible, informational, and fun/quirky doc i've seen on burning man. it's a hard topic to explain and this movie does such a good job of showing the many facets of the event. it had a memorable blend of fun & entertainment with good information that convinced me to finally take the plundge and go to the festival after years of hearing about it. it has great music, goofy & real characters, incredible visuals of the event, strong background info, and the bonus features were amazing - especially the sky divers plunging into the temporary city of 40,000 people. totally recommend it.

Journeying for a Burning
This documentary follows a group of close friends as they explore radical self-expression at the Burning Man festival at Black Rock City, Nevada. Great music and camera work set this Burning Man documentary apart from others that have been released. This one is filled with excitement and adventure as well as some hysterical moments -- those guys Jake and Steve are simply looney! If you have ever been, are thinking about going, or are just curious about Burning Man, this is a great place to start.

Feels Like Home!
Of all the years I've been to Burningman, it's been hard to explain the experience to those who haven't. Journey to the Flames is the ideal documentary to help me with this mission! It takes you on a real ride of the true Burningman journey through the storylines of everyday people who create their own "playa" characters as they begin to explore themselves in such an extreme and playful environment.

This is a great DVD to give to friends and family who have wondered about what happens during those crazy 10 days- as well as a fun reminder to those who have gone... what a strange crazy trip it is.