30 years of history of Burning Man!

JUN 01 2023 · 19:33

DUST & ILLUSIONS is available to watch with a donation, so we can pay to get it posted online. Once we have 1,000 subscribers, we'll be able to post it here. Help us spread the word. Thank you community! First 15 minutes from Dust & Illusions, the only movie that looks a the entire history of Burning Man, starting a decade before the event even started. What was the context behind Burning Man. Was it thought out from the beginning as this event that would become world-renowned? Larry Harvey would say he had the idea and from that he was the reason for Burning Man to exist. He created Burning Man after watching Wicker Man. And then people from the San Francisco Suicide Club and the San Francisco Cacophony Society invited the Burning Man sculpture to come to their event on the Black Rock desert. Burning Man isn't what it seems to be. Today it's a massive event, with cool arts whipped by regular giant dust storms in the Black Rock desert. But 30 years ago, it was an underground event put together by renegade artists in the middle of San Francisco. Law enforcement didn't like that, so with the help of the Cacophony Society, they moved it to an unforgiving wind-swept dry lake bed in the Nevada desert. It slowly changed to become the $20+ million event it now is. This film looks at how decadence turned into organized chaos, and how politics might have replaced philosophies. The whole Burning Man story.