Dust & Illusions - 30 years of Burning Man history

Rate the movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1312081/... 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 lakebed in the Nevada desert. It slowly changed to become the $65+ million event it now is. This film looks at how decadence turned into organized chaos, and how politics might have replaced philosophies. The cycle of life! Dust & Illusions isn’t a conventional “party” movie — it’s a historical and thoughtful documentary about how Burning Man grew from a few friends burning an effigy on a beach into a global cultural phenomenon, while examining what those changes mean for the event’s ideals. Director: Olivier Bonin. Editor: Arthur Guibert. Narrator: Tom Kennedy. Music: Sam Fajner Production: Madnomad Films and Imagine Productions (France) Funding: CNC (Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée)