Confessions of a Burning Man

For one week every year, a virtual city is erected on the surface of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada: Black Rock City, otherwise known as Burning Man. The documentary CONFESSIONS follows Samantha Weaver, Anna Getty, Kevin Epps, and Michael Winaker as they journey for the first time to the event. These four subjects are thrown together in the visual maelstrom that is Burning Man. Humanity, art and dust collide in an encounter that is out-of-this-world. Samantha builds a labyrinth in an attempt to participate. Kevin, hesitant at first, discovers a suprisingly accepting community, and his hip-hop music gets some air-time on a local radio station. In order to meet as many strangers as possible, Michael takes on his familiar career of a driving cab, which he is forbidden to do anywhere else but Burning Man. And Anna finds herself on a personal journey where she comes to painful truths about her family and her past. Burning Man's growth and socio-economic implications are told lyrically by its founder, Larry Harvey. His oral history weaves like a world-scale version of what the four individuals experience as part of this temporal desert community. Whether from the individual or the collective perspective, there can be no doubt that Burning Man is one of the most important and unique cultural phenomena to emerge from contemporary American.