Burning Man Festival - Special Edition

I would like to see other Burning Man films from a female point of view

This video is not worth the time or money, unless you intend to visit the festival, if so, good luck. There seems to be a load of self-indulgent, self-congratulatory people exhibiting themselves.

Gave a good look at what seems on the surface the party side of Burning Man but in it's own way goes deeper.

The primary strength of both the compelling films contained on this DVD is what it avoids, its strength to resist temptations common to other film of its like. Mr. Winston's doc manages to construct an organic flow of scenes while still resisting the urges to dribble out a stream of consciousness rendition of typicality of the Burning Man festival or offering a definition of what the festival "means". Neither approaches would have hit the point since, as this doc has shown me, the Burning Man seems more about a free spirited communal gathering than an opportunity for unique individual experience, more of a chance for open ended discovery than some sort of pre-conceived "defining experience".Joe Winston spends most of the time following the various characters he encounters, whether they are clad in creative and decorative costume, driving their flamboyant cars, or just running around stark naked with well placed shiny tassels. People indulge in everything from making love in public to firing automatic weapons at patches of dirt, and somehow manage to make both equally innocuous and free-spirited. He also discusses current and past experiences of the festival with these characteristic festival-goers, as well as the history and ideas behind the festival with the founder, a Mr. Larry Harvey.The second short film combines elements from the first with a more personal narrative that also takes as its task the portrayal of the filmmaker and his friends in their journey to make it to and live through another Burning Man Festival. Except this time they are determined to add to the diversity of creative venues. They construct a 1-Minute of Fame booth that couples 1 minute of recorded enclosed privacy with the open-ended impetus to create yourself, and the Couch Potato Camp, a home-base where anyone can relax on a couch, crack open a beer, and watch some TV. Both of these experiments produce notably interesting results, and end up schematizing well into conventions used for constructing the film itself.Perhaps the most gaping flaw of both films is their brevity, which may leave the viewer not wondering what "goes on behind closed doors" or something similar, but that the full diversity of creative expressions for each respective festival is hardly exhausted by the film's coverage. Hopefully this compels you to attend a Burning Man festival (especially before its increasing popularity potentially blows it open into a different beast), but perhaps it just makes you want to stay far away from Black Rock City, Nevada.