Somewhere in Between
For just one week of the year, nearly 50,000 individuals make the pilgrimage to the desolate Black Rock Desert in Northwestern Nevada to participate in the Burning Man Project, a festival that provides space for unbridled creative expression. Through the interwoven stories of five men, Somwehere in Between reveals how experimentation with dress and bodily modification at the festal gathering may facilitate reconceptualizations of masculine appearance style in more plural or open-ended terms. Throughout the film, the act of styling and experimenting with the body becomes a way of thinking through and performing cultural anxieties and ambivalences about identity, and gender in particular. Though fleeting, the Burning Man festival provides space for experimentation, transgression, and ultimately, transformation.
A film by Denise Nicole Green, funded in part by the National Textile Center and the Division of Textiles and Clothing at the University of California, Davis.