Burning Man: Voyage in Utopia

Explore the remarkable Burning Man festival from the inside out as documentary filmmaker Laurent Le Gall speaks with founder Larry Harvey and profiles artist David Best, who draws on recycled materials to build an elaborate temple dedicated to the memory of the recently departed. For one week each year, the barren Nevada desert comes to life for the annual Burning Man festival, a celebration of life, art, and radical self-expression. Filmmaker Le Gall attended his first Burning Man festival shortly after his father died, and now divides his time between the Bay Area and his native France. In speaking with festival founder Harvey, Le Gall examines just what it is that has drawn some 50,000 people into the Nevada desert each summer for the past two decades. Additional conversations with artists Best highlight the lengths that some artists are willing to go to in order to ensure that the Burning Man festival means something more than a simple excuse to party in the desert. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi